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A SILVER RECTANGULAR BOX A SILVER KETTLE AND COVER AN INLAID IRON CIRCULAR CHARGER
By the Komai Company of Kyoto,
AND SHIBUICHI COVER Meiji era (1868-1912),
By Masayuki, Meiji (1868-1912) late 19th/early 20th century Meiji era (1868-1912),
or Taisho (1912-1926) era, early 20th century The body hammered with a textured dimpled late 19th/early 20th century
The sides of polished silver, the lid inset with ground and decorated in low relief with a Cast and chiselled in typical Komai silver and
a rectangular shibuichi plaque engraved and fishing basket, tasselled canister, a wound ball gold relief overlay with Sojobo, the King of the
decorated in katakiribori (engraving with an of string, a gourd and an inro (medicine case), tengu (mountain-dwelling demons) seated on
angled chisel emulating brushstrokes) and the shoulder applied with a sparrow at either a veranda with a feather fan, keenly watching
gold and silver flat inlay with a large sprig of side, the cover reticulated and surmounted by the fight between two tengu subordinates,
peony and bamboo growing over a stream; a gilt finial in the form of a pierced bead knop, as he oversees their martial training, within
signed with chiselled characters Masayuki the base stamped jungin (Pure silver); with a a fruiting-vine border finished with a silver
with seal Masayuki, stamped on the underside wood storage box. 21cm (8¼in) high. (3). rim; signed on the base Komai sei within a
jungin (Pure silver). 4.5cm x 13.3cm x 10cm rectangular reserve. 39.2cm (15 3/8in) diam.
(1¾in x 5¼in x 3 7/8in). (2). £6,000 - 7,000
JPY910,000 - 1,100,000 £3,000 - 5,000
£1,500 - 2,000 US$8,200 - 9,500 JPY450,000 - 760,000
JPY230,000 - 300,000 US$4,100 - 6,800
US$2,000 - 2,700

For details of the charges payable in addition to the final Hammer Price of each Lot
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