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                                                                      A PAIR OF IMPERIAL PRESENTATION
                                                                      ARCHAIC FORM VASES
                                                                      MEIJI PERIOD, LATE 19TH CENTURY
                                                                      SIGNED DAI NIHON TEIKOKU ISHIKAWA KEN
                                                                      KANAZAWA DOKI KAISHA SEI
                                                                      菊御紋入金銀象嵌花瓶 一対、19世紀後期、銘 大日本帝国石
                                                                      川県金澤銅器会社製
                                                                      oviform with everted necks with two oval panels depicting
                                                                      peony sprays and two further panels of irises in swirling
                                                                      waters, all between bands of archaic motifs in hirazogan,
                                                                      chiseled and stippled, incised in gilt, silver and other coloured
                                                                      patination, the shoulders applied with archaic form handles of
                                                                      mythical birds, Imperial mon to the neck, each signed on base
                                                                      with Dai Nihon Teikoku Ishikawa ken Kanazawa Doki kaisha
                                                                      sei [Made by the Kanazawa Bronze Company of Ishikawa
                                                                      prefecture in Great Imperial Japan]
                                                                      (2)
                                                                      58 cm, 22⅞ in.
                                                                      £ 30,000-40,000
                                                                      € 33,800-45,100   US$ 39,500-53,000
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