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SEIKO
A bronze double gourd vase
Meiji (1868-1912) or Taisho (1912-1926)
era, early 20th century
Cast in two shades of bronze and decorated
with a small frog, the patina darkening
toward the top and bottom, signed on the
underside Seiko saku
6 7/8in (15.2cm) high

US$1,500 - 2,500
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MIYABE ATSUYOSHI
A bronze vase with mixed-metal decoration
Meiji era (1868-1912), late 19th century
Of ovoid form with a tapered foot, boldly
decorated with a stand of irises and a
swallow in high relief silver, copper, shibuichi,
shakudo, and gold, signed on the underside
Dai Nihon Kyoto no ju Ikkodo Miyabe
Atsuyoshi with a kao
7 1/4in (8.4cm) high
1309 1310
US$2,000 - 3,000

For another work by this Kyoto-based artist,
a pupil of Shinoyama Atsuoki (1813-1891),
see Oliver Impey, Malcolm Fairley and Victor
Harris, Meiji no Takara, Treasures of Imperial
Japan, Metalwork Part II [in the Khalili
Collection], London: Kibo Foundation, 1995,
cat. no. 93.
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CHIKAHARU
A pair of inlaid bronze slender handled
vases
Meiji era (1868-1912), late 19th century
Both vases supported on four tall stylized
legs in the form of mythological creatures,
elaborately inlaid in gold, shakudo, and
bronze with a matching design of a fanciful
peacock carrying a tassel floret in its
beak above a bulbous section decorated
with dragon roundels inlaid in gold on a
honeycomb-patterned ground, the shoulder
applied with archaic bracket handles, each
with removable bronze liner, the base of both
vases signed Chikaharu saku; with wood
storage box
12 3/4in (32.5cm) high
US$4,000 - 5,000

Provenance
Previously sold Bonhams, London,
November 6 2014, lot 400

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