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AN INLAID-IRON CIGARETTE CASE AND AN UNASSOCIATED TWO INLAID-BRONZE CONICAL VASES
INLAID-IRON MATCHBOX By Miyabe Atsuyoshi of Kyoto for the Hamada Company,
By the Komai Company of Kyoto, Meiji era (1868-1912), Meiji (1868-1912) era, late 19th/early 20th century, circa 1890s
late 19th/early 20th century Each worked on the body with an almost identical design in silver,
The rectangular cigarette case worked in typical gold overlay with bronze and shakudo low-relief relay, depicting a flock of cranes in
a peacock perched on a gnarled branch of pine draped diagonally flight and others standing in a lotus pond beside windswept reeds
across the cover, the interior plain and inscribed with the initials embellished here and there with silver dewdrops, the neck and
and date M.B. 1930, the reverse inlaid with three chidori (plovers or rim decorated in silver flat relief with repeated geometric, diaper,
dottorels) on a plain matt black damascened ground, signed with seal fragmented rinzu (textile-weave) and shippo-hanabishi (flowery-
Nihonkoku Kyoto no ju Komai sei beneath a dragonfly, 8cm x 12.2cm diamond-linked-jewels); each signed on the base with chiselled
(3 1/8in x 4¾in), with a wood storage box; the small rectangular signature Dai Nihon Hamada sei Saikyo no junin Atsuyoshi tsukuru
matchbox similarly worked in mainly gold overlay on a plain matt black 大日本浜田製西京住人篤良造 (made by Atsuyoshi of Kyoto for
damascened ground, its cover with a raised irregularly shaped thumb Hamada in Great Japan.
piece for opening, decorated with a moonlit scene depicting a pair of Each vase 25.7cm (10 1/8in) high. (2).
cranes flying over pine branches on one side and a butterfly hovering
over a clump of irises on the other, the sides decorated with fruiting £4,000 - 6,000
vine, unsigned; 1cm x 5cm x 3.3cm (½in x 2in x 1¼in). (3). JPY590,000 - 890,000
US$5,300 - 7,900
£1,200 - 1,500
JPY180,000 - 220,000
US$1,600 - 2,000

For details of the charges payable in addition to the final Hammer Price of each Lot FINE JAPANESE ART | 219
please refer to paragraphs 7 & 8 of the Notice to Bidders at the back of the catalogue.