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307 * A similar example (possibly the pair to the present lot): Tokyo Bijutsu
Kurabu 東京美術倶楽部 (Tokyo Art Club) Yamamura Koka gahaku
A NEGORO RED- AND BLACK-LACQUER shozohin nyusatsu 山村耕花画伯所蔵品入札 (Auction catalogue of the
HEISHI (RITUAL SAKE BOTTLE)
Muromachi (1333-1573) or Momoyama (1573-1615) period, collection of the painter Yamamura Koka), 17 December 1940, lot 110.
16th century
A turned-wood heishi (ritual sake bottle) of standard Negoro-lacquer
form, painted in red lacquer on a black-lacquer ground with two
cranes, pine and bamboo, and with smaller plants around the foot;
with a wood storage box with inscriptions. 41.5cm (16¼in) high,
internal cavity 20.7cm (8¼in) deep. (2).

£5,000 - 6,000
JPY740,000 - 890,000
US$6,600 - 7,900

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please refer to paragraphs 7 & 8 of the Notice to Bidders at the back of the catalogue.