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A SLENDER INLAID-IRON OVOID VASE
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 shoulder with two elaborate silver-outlined panels
enclosing different scenes including Kiyomizu-dera, Otani Mausoleum,
the unmistakable Entsu Bridge built with two large holes in the
shape of eye glasses in the front garden of the temple letting out
the flow of the water and surrounding precincts consisting of other
famous pagodas and shrines in Higashiyama at sunrise, all above
a square panel enclosing a dragon emerging from waves and the
other depicting butterflies hovering over stalks of ominaeshi (valerian),
susuki (pampas grass) and kiku (chrysanthemums) bending in the
gentle breeze in front of a brushwood fence, above a second square
panel with a formal arrangement of stylised butterflies, all reserved
on a ground of fragmented rinzu (textile-weave) and repeat hanabishi
(flowery-diamond), diaper designs and geometric patterns, the neck
and foot with a narrow band of fruiting vine; signed above the foot on
the reverse Kyoto no ju Komai sei and inscribed Otani Kiyomizu no zu,
with one wood storage box.
25.5cm (10in) high. (2).

£10,000 - 15,000 For details of the charges payable in addition to the final Hammer Price of each Lot
JPY1,500,000 - 2,200,000 please refer to paragraphs 7 & 8 of the Notice to Bidders at the back of the catalogue.
US$13,000 - 20,000

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