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296 Y Ф
A GOLD-LACQUER AND INLAID
SHIBAYAMA TANTO KOSHIRAE
(ORNAMENTAL MOUNTING FOR
A SHORT SWORD)
Meiji era (1868-1912),
late 19th/early 20th century
The blade of hira-zukuri form, carved with
a dragon and ken and a bonji horimono,
the scabbard and hilt of kinji lacquer with
details of e-nashiji and togidashi maki-e,
elaborately inlaid in typical Shibayama style
encrustations with an entertainer playing a
flute while balancing a ball on a tall pole on
his head beneath a flowering prunus tree,
to the amusement of a small boy on one
side and similarly decorated with a pigeon
perched on a bough of the same tree on the
reverse, the tsuka (hilt or handle) embellished
with a different vase of ikebana, the kashira
(pommel at the tip of the tsuka), fuchi-gashira
(decorative handle ornaments) and kojiri
(decorative ornament at the base of the
scabbard) of silver, engraved with formal
foliate designs; unsigned.
Total length 33cm (13in).

£6,000 - 8,000
JPY890,000 - 1,200,000
US$7,900 - 11,000

297 Y Ф
A SILVER-FILIGREE, IVORY AND INLAID
SHIBAYAMA TRAY
By Masayuki, Meiji era (1868-1912),
late 19th/early 20th century
The centre inset with a silver-edged ivory
fan-shaped panel inlaid in Shibayama style
with a solitary butterfly and two small birds
flying past flowering cherry branches arching
over a clump of chrysanthemums, the
guard engraved with two plovers flying over
windswept millet stalks within a delicately
pierced silver-filigree frame with formal
chrysanthemum blooms amid scrolling foliage,
raised on four elaborately shaped silver feet;
signed on the ivory fan Masayuki within an
oval rectangular reserve.
19.7cm x 25.4cm (7¾in x 10 1/8in).

£1,500 - 2,000
JPY220,000 - 300,000
US$2,000 - 2,600

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178 | BONHAMS For details of the charges payable in addition to the final Hammer Price of each Lot
please refer to paragraphs 7 & 8 of the Notice to Bidders at the back of the catalogue.