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A wOOd-lINed SIlVeR cASkeT wITH HINged cOVeR
Meiji era
The cover repoussé decorated with flowing hibiscus continuing to the
front of the box, stamped Jungin (pure silver).
15.3cm wide
£500 - 700 50

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A BRONze OkIMONO OF JuROJIN
By Seimei, Meiji
The god of wisdom depicted as an old man in scholar’s robes sits at
ease stroking his beard, leaning against a reclining deer, (one horn
lacking), marked to base.
16cm high
£800 - 1,200
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A clOISONNé eNAMel SleNdeR OVOId VASe
Attributed to Ota Motoshiro, Meiji era
Intricately worked in silver wire of varying gauge and decorated with an
overall design of stalks of white chrysanthemums issuing from behind
boulders enclosed within bamboo fences on the banks of a stylised
stream, all reserved on a midnight-blue ground; signed on the base
with the mark of Ota Motoshiro.
16cm high.
£700 - 900
The seal is illustrated in Frederic T. Schneider, The Art of Japanese
Cloisonné Enamel: History, Techniques and Artists, 1600 to the
Present, Jefferson NC, McFarland, 2010, p.252, no.160.
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A clOISONNé eNAMel cOFFee POT ANd cOVeR
Style of Namikawa Yasuyuki, Meiji era
Constructed in a Middle Eastern form, the body, spout and cover
worked mainly in silver wire, the upper section decorated with a
horizontal formation of red-crested cranes flying beneath roundels
enclosing stylised butterflies, dragons, ho-o birds (phoenix) and
floral motifs interwoven among grasses, the lower section with
large differently coloured shield-shaped panels enclosing ho-o birds
alternating with writhing dragons, the ring handle gilt and plain. 51
19cm high (2).

£600 - 800
For details of the charges payable in addition to the final Hammer Price of each Lot
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