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AN INLAID-IRON OVOID VASE
By the Komai Company of Kyoto, Meiji era (1868-1912),
late 19th/early 20th century
Worked in mainly silver and gold overlay with a wide central band
enclosing four cranes, one in flight, a pair of cranes with two offspring
standing by a shibagaki (brushwood fence) pecking for food in the
foreground, pavilions and dwellings nestled amidst mountainous
landscape in the distance, the shoulder with stylised chrysanthemum
heads enclosed within elaborate cartouches extending from the neck,
the bottom section worked in silver with a symmetrical arrangement
of repeat geometric motifs including fragmented rinzu (textile-weave),
hanabishi shippo-zunagi (flowery-diamond linked-jewels) beneath a
band of lappets alternately inlaid in silver and gold, the neck encircled
with a narrow band of fruiting vine; signed above the foot Kyoto no ju
Komai sei; with a cloth-bound storage box.
25cm (9 7/8in) high. (2).

£20,000 - 25,000
JPY3,000,000 - 3,700,000
US$26,000 - 33,000

END OF SALE

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