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a yoKohama silver bowl four jaPanese Cloisonne vases a ColleCtion of jaPanese and
Meiji Period and a bronze usubata Chinese images
Of oval form, with gently flaring foot and Meiji/Taisho Period or later 19th or 20th Century
everted floriform rim, applied with confronting The usubata of typical form with trumpet Including: a Chinese album of couples making
dragon handles, the body of compressed neck and elephant-head handles; each of love; an anonymous album of Shunga images;
rounded form, decorated in high relief with the cloisonné enamel vases with a design of two Japanese reference books on Shunga; an
a continuous design of irises issuing from kacho-ga or natural history. ehon of Shunga images; a concertina ehon
swirling waters, with tied brushwood fences The usubata: 26cm (10in) high (5). (watojibon) of about 38 oban tate-e; and a
and wooden gates, incised signature reading quantity of Ukiyo-e and Senso-e.
Watanabe zo (made by Watanabe) and Jungin £500 - 1,000 (qty).
(pure silver). CNY4,800 - 9,600 HK$6,000 - 12,000
34.2cm (13.1/2in) wide. £500 - 1,000
CNY4,800 - 9,600 HK$6,000 - 12,000
£2,000 - 3,000
CNY19,000 - 29,000 HK$24,000 - 36,000

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