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A SHIBAYAMA-STYLE ‘MILLE-FLEURS’
THREE VARIOUS TSUBA BOX AND COVER 455 Y Ф
18th/19th century Meiji Period A GOLD-LACQUER FOUR-CASE INRO
Comprising: A circular iron tsuba cast in low Of rectangular form, decorated with a dense Edo/Meiji Period
relief with a recumbent buffalo before pavilions multitude of flowerheads, in mother-of-pearl, Decorated in gold and coloured takamaki-e,
in a pine-strewn river landscape, the buffalo ivory and hardstone, mounted on a hardwood hiramaki-e and kirikane with flowering, leafy
in copper, flecks of gilt remaining, signed box with velvet lined interior. chrysanthemum sprays issuing from grassy
Choshu hagi ju Tomonobu; a rounded square 9.5cm (3.3/4in) long. (2). hillsides, the interior in nashiji, attached ivory
tsuba, cast in low relief with Mount Fuji, the netsuke modelled as a man clambering over a
tip of the peak heightened in silver, incised £800 - 1,200 large clam shell, red lacquer signature tablet.
with an ascending dragon amongst swirling CNY6,900 - 10,000 HK$7,800 - 12,000 7.5cm (3in) long.
clouds, signed Kii Kuni Nobutoshi; and a fine
oval shakudo nanako tsuba cast in relief with 454 £800 - 1,200
a carp swimming amongst aquatic plants and A JAPANESE ARTICULATED COPPER CNY6,900 - 10,000 HK$7,800 - 12,000
swirling waters, signed Iwamoto Konkwan. MODEL OF A CRAYFISH
8cm (3.1/8in), 7cm (2.3/4in) and 7.6cm (3in). Meiji Period
(3). Modelled with fully articulated limbs and shell,
cast in naturalistic detail, the underside of the
£1,000 - 1,500 body inscribed: 湖東住人(Koto junin), 須賀治
CNY8,700 - 13,000 HK$9,800 - 15,000 造 (Suga Osamu zo,) which may be translated
as: Made by Suga Osamu, resident in the
Provenance East side of the lake.
Christie’s, London, 14 July 1970, Lots 38 & 37cm (14.1/2in) long when fully extended.
185.
Purchased at Sydney L. Moss Ltd., 15 July £800 - 1,200
1970. CNY6,900 - 10,000 HK$7,800 - 12,000

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