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IRON AND INLAID IRON WORKS OF ART
Various Properties

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A TETSUBIN (IRON KETTLE) AND COVER
AN INLAID-IRON KORO (INCENSE BURNER) AND COVER By Daikoku made for the Seijudo Company, Meiji era (1868-1912),
By Ono Ryumin, Meiji era (1868-1912), late 19th/early 20th century late 19th/early 20th century
The matt-patinated iron body inset with a central horizontal silver band Cast in cylindrical form, decorated in high relief with a Chinese scholar
enclosed within enamelled butterflies hovering among tightly clustered possibly Zhao Mengfu (1254-1322) holding a fan seated beneath pine
blooming flowers including peony, wisteria, iris and chrysanthemum, branches beside a crane, the reverse with a three-line inscription, the
beneath a further band of keyfret worked in flat gold inlay encircling handle overlaid with floral sprays in gold and silver low relief, signed
the neck, the domed cover similarly decorated in gold nunome- Daikoku tsukuru, the cover surmounted with a bud finial, the inside of
zogan with a multi-petalled panels enclosing geomeric and formalised the cover signed with chiselled characters Seijudo tsukuru.
foliate motifs, surmounted by an iron finial in the form of a stalk of 15.5cm (6 1/8in) high excluding handle. (2).
chrysanthemum, with an interior hammered silver liner, the base signed
with a gold seal Ryumin; with a wood storage box. £3,000 - 4,000
15.5cm (6 1/8in) high. (5). JPY440,000 - 590,000
US$4,000 - 5,300
£6,000 - 8,000
JPY890,000 - 1,200,000
US$7,900 - 11,000

Ryumin (birth name Ono Matabei), lived in Edo and was a pupil of
Shima Rakumin (dates unknown). Sword fittings including kozuka
and menuki signed Ryumin using the characters 竜民 are recorded
in his early career whilst the characters 竜珉 are used later. He was
also known to make wood and ivory carvings; see Wakayama Takeshi
(Homatsu), Kinko jiten (Dictionary of Metalworkers), Tokyo, Token
Shunju Shinbunsha, 1999, p.1340.

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