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MURATA SEIMIN (1761-1873)
A bronze hanaire (flower vase)
Edo period (1615-1868), 19th century
Cast in sections and assembled as a lotus
blossom, the base formed from an insect-
eaten lotus leaf, applied with two separately
cast turtles, signed on the underside Toto no
ju Hokugyokuso Seimin
With a wood storage box
9 1/2in (24.9cm) high
US$1,500 - 2,000

1319
ICHIOKA SHIUN (ACTIVE EARLY 20TH
CENTURY)
1318 A bronze vase
Meiji era (1868-1912), circa 1908
The slender baluster vase cast and chiseled
with a pair of deer beneath a cedar tree,
finished in a chocolate-brown patina, sealed
on the underside Shiun
With a wood storage box
10 1/4in (38.6cm) high

US$2,000 - 3,000
A similar bronze vase with deer design by
Ichioka Shiun, a pupil of Oshima Joun (see
the following lot) is illustrated in Bijutsu Gaho
(The Magazine of Art), 28/1 (June 5 1910),
“A Bronze Vase with the Figure of Two Deer.
By Shiun Ichioka. Awarded the bronze medal
at 23rd Competition Show of Sculpture,
Autumn of 1908,” accessible at http://www.
tobunken.go.jp/materials/materials-image/
gahou/28_01/gh_28_01_0013.jpg

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OSHIMA JOUN (1858-1940)
A bronze vase
1319 Meiji era (1868-1912), late 19th/early 20th
century
Of ovoid form and worked on the surface
with a snail on a gourd attached to a leafy
vine, all in high relief, signed on the underside
Joun saku (Made by Joun)
With fitted wood stand, storage bag and
wood tomobako storage box inscribed
Chudo hisago chokoku kabin (Cast-bronze
flower vase sculpted with a gourd) and
signed Ichijoken Joun saku (Made by
Ichijoken Joun) with seal Joun no in (Seal of
Joun)
8 1/2in (21.8cm) high

US$3,000 - 4,000
A professor at Tokyo School of Art from 1887
until 1932, Oshima Joun was one of the
most celebrated bronze-casters of the late
nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He
exhibited at several of the great international
expositions of the era, including Paris (1900),
St. Louis (1904) and London (1910).

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