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MIYAO COMPANY A SHAKUDO AND MIXED-METAL PANEL AND THREE COPPER
A pair of bronze figures of samurai AND MIXED-METAL PANELS
Meiji period (1868-1912), circa 1900 Meiji (1868-1912) or Taisho (1912-1926) era, late 19th/ early 20th
The high-ranking warriors cast in two shades of bronze and century
highlighted in gilt, each shown wearing full armor decorated with All worked in shishiai-bori, kebori and katakiri-bori and inlaid with
dragon roundels on the cuirass, and with a tachi and a tanto thrust in shakudo, gold and silver, the first decorated with a traveler on a
their sash, one with a saihai (paper signal baton) suspended from his stormy night, signed Yoshihide to; the second with a woodsman
left arm, the holding a gunpai (signal fan) as he holds his sword, one crossing a bridge carrying bundles of sticks, signed Yoshihide to; the
signed on his left calf Miyao, each with a fitted wood stand decorated third decorated with a supernatural figure riding an ox and attended
with scrolling vines and stylized phoenix in gold hiramaki-e by several figures, signed Shinya to; the fourth decorated with
15 1/4in (38.7cm) high auspicious items for the New Year celebration and a poem, signed
Nanajugosai Jitokusai Ichiya to and with a seal
$25,000 - 35,000 The first two with tomobako wood storage boxes inscribed, signed
and sealed by the artist (4)
8 3/8 x 7 1/8in (21.2 x 18.1cm)

$2,000 - 3,000
This lot features the work of two generations of leading
metalworkers: Sekiguchi Ichiya (1850-1933), and his son Sekiguchi
Shinya (1877-circa 1932). Ichiya was trained under the last great
Goto school master, Goto Ichijo (1791-1876) and considered himself
to be a follower of the Goto tradition. Sekiya trained under his father,
receiving instruction in chiseling and inlays, but it was during his
apprenticeship with painter Hashimoto Gaho (1835-1908) that he
developed his keen sense of pictorial design.

For works by both father and son, see Bonhams, Birds and Flowers:
A Special Exhibition of Masterpieces of Japanese Art from a Private
Collection, New York, 2018, nos. 17 and 21.
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