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A FINE UCHIDASHI (REPOUSSÉ) IRON OKIMONO OF DAIKOKU
By Kurose Sosei (1886-1944), Showa era (1926-1989), circa 1930-1940
Seated and leaning against his sack, smiling, holding a mallet in his left
hand and clutching the neck of his sack in the other, worked entirely in
uchidashi (repoussé) technique from one sheet of iron; signed on the base
with chiselled characters along one side Sosei with a kao.
17.7cm x 23cm (7in x 9in).

£10,000 - 15,000
JPY1,300,000 - 2,000,000
US$12,000 - 18,000
An almost identical example of Daikoku by the maker is illustrated and
exhibited in Kagashi Bijutsukan (Kaga City Art Museum), Sobi Yamada:
Tetsu uchidashi no meiko Yamada Sobi ten: Botsugyo hyakunen (Sobi
Yamada Exhibition: Yamada Sobi, Master of Iron Repoussé,
100th Anniversary), Kaga City, 2016.

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