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A GOLD-LACQUER HIRA-NATSUME
YUASA KAGYO (1875-1952) A BLACK-AND-GOLD-LACQUER SANPO
(SQUAT TEA-CADDY) An Inlaid and Gold-Lacquered Natsume
Edo period (1615-1868), mid/late 19th century (Tea Caddy) and Cover (STAND FOR CEREMONIAL OFFERINGS)
Meiji era (1868-1912),
Decorated in gold, black, silver, and red Probably Showa era (1926-1989), 20th century late 19th/early 20th century
hiramaki-e and takamaki-e, with highlights of The black ground decorated with an all-over Of shallow circular, foliate form with everted
e-nashiji and kirikane with a group of karako scene of windswept autumn plants and flowers rim and supported on a high flaring foot
(Chinese boys) at leisure, the lid with a kidney- comprising strands of susuki (pampas grass), pierced with three openings in the form of
shaped panel enclosing four boys in a garden, kiku (chrysanthemums), nadeshiko (pinks), flowers, embellished in gold hiramaki-e and
the oldest boy carrying his young brother on ominaeshi (valerian), hagi (bush clover), and e-nashiji with details highlighted in kirikane
his back watching their two companions each kikyo (Chinese bellflower), the lid lacquered with trailing paulownia leaves, reserved on a
holding a cockerel as they prepare them for a inside in silver togidashi maki-e with the moon roiro-nuri ground; unsigned.
fight, the box with a continuous scene depicting and inlaid on the outside in silver low relief with 19cm x 27.3cm (7½in x 10¾in).
several boys at play, one wearing a helmet riding a single character Tsuyu (Dew), the interior and
a hobby horse, two catching insects with fans, underside of fundame (matt gold), unsigned; £1,000 - 1,500
others playing musical instruments, all on a roiro- with double wood tomobako storage boxes, JPY190,000 - 290,000
nuri ground sprinkled with hirame, the bottom the inner storage box inscribed inside the lid US$1,300 - 2,000
and interior of rich nashiji, unsigned; with a plain Akikusa onatsume [..] (Large tea caddy with
wood storage box. autumn-plant design), and inscribed and
5.7cm x 8cm (2¼in x 3 1/8in). (3). signed outside the box Togidashi akikusa
£1,000 - 1,500 maki-e Tsuyu onatsume, uchi kinji ni tsuki,
Nushi Kagyo (Large tea caddy ‘Dew’) with
JPY190,000 - 290,000 togidashi and maki-e design of autumn plants,
US$1,300 - 2,000 the interior with the moon on a gold ground)
with a seal Kagyo.
7cm x 7cm (2¾in x 2¾in). (4).
£1,500 - 2,000
JPY290,000 - 390,000
US$2,000 - 2,600

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