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375 * The Jomi Eisuke Company of Kyoto showed frequently at both domestic
and international exhibitions, starting with the Philadelphia Centennial
A PAIR OF INLAID-BRONZE VASES Exposition of 1876. After the death of the founder in 1900, his son
By Jomi Einosuke (active early 20th century) Einosuke, who graduated in 1903 from Tokyo School of Art, seems
Meiji (1868-1912) or Taisho (1912-1926) era, circa 1910–1920 to have refined the company’s output, producing works that reflect
A pair of copper-alloy baluster vases with narrow flared necks and contemporary developments in Kyoto painting. The present carefully
bamboo-form handles, each decorated in fine flat inlay of gold, silver, crafted pair of vases appears to have been made during this latter
copper, hido (red copper), shakudo and shibuichi, depicting male and phase. To add to their air of quality and elegance, Einosuke named them
female ho-o birds, paulownia trees and the rising sun, the necks and Tanpo choyo borrowing words from the early Chinese classic Shijing
lower bodies with orange-skin patination, the rims gilt, the base of (The Book of Songs): 鳳凰鳴矣，于彼高岡。梧桐生矣，于彼朝陽
each with a circular inlaid silver-wire mark Jomi kore o sei 紹美制之 (The ho-o cry out on their high crags and the paulownia come into
(Made by Jomi); with a wood tomobako storage box inscribed inside flower in the morning sun).
Tanpo choyo moyo odo tsuiki kabin ittsui Kyoto Seiseido Jomi tsukuru
丹鳳朝陽模様 黄銅鎚起華瓶 一對 京都 惺惺堂紹美造 (A pair
of tsuiki [hammered-up] yellow-bronze flower vases with auspicious
designs made by Seiseido Jomi of Kyoto.
Each approx. 31cm (12¼in) high. (5).

£12,000 - 15,000
JPY1,800,000 - 2,200,000
US$16,000 - 20,000

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