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352 IRON, BRONZE, SILVER AND
216 | BONHAMS OTHER WORKS OF ART

Property from a European
Private Collection
(Lots 352-365)

352
AN INLAID-IRON RECTANGULAR BOX
AND COVER
By the Komai Company of Kyoto, Meiji era
(1868-1912), late 19th/early 20th century
Finely worked throughout in the typical Komai
style of silver and gold overlay, the cover
with a plain matt black damascened panel
enclosing a rural scene showing a solitary
peasant on the shores of a lake beside
thatched huts, a sailing boat on the calm
water and the snow-capped peak of Mount
Fuji rising in the distance, the sides similarly
inlaid with rectangular panels enclosing trees
of different seasons, two with birds amidst
the branches, all bordered by a ground of
fragmented rinzu (textile-weave), raised on
four bracket feet inlaid with fruiting vine;
signed on the base with seal Nihonkoku Kyoto
no ju Komai sei beneath a dragonfly.
4.5cm x 10.8cm x 7.6cm (1¾in x 4¼in x 3in).

£2,000 - 3,000
JPY300,000 - 440,000
US$2,600 - 4,000

353
A MISCELLANEOUS GROUP OF FOUR
ETCHED AND ENGRAVED METAL CASES
Meiji era (1868-1912),
late 19th/early 20th century
The first a large circular silver compact case,
engraved on the cover with a rural landscape
and Mount Fuji looming in the distance,
signed Homei, 10.1cm (4in) diam; the second
a sentoku flattened rectangular cigarette case
etched with overlapping fan-shape panels
enclosing different bird-and-flower scenes
on a dense floral ground, unsigned, 16.2cm
x 8.2cm (6 5/8in x 3¼in); the third and fourth
a matching cigarette case, 8cm x 9cm (3
1/8in x 3½in) and matchbox, 5.7cm x 5.7cm
(2¼in x 2¼in) etched with birds perched on
branches of flowering maple, each signed on
the reverse Yoshiyuki saku, contained inside a
green brocade fitted box. (5).

£800 - 1,200
JPY120,000 - 180,000
US$1,100 - 1,600

353

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.