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A PAIR OF LARGE INLAID SHIBUICHI GEESE A FINE SILVER AND ENAMELLED KORO (INCENSE BURNER)
ON A LACQUERED-WOOD STAND AND COVER IN THE FORM OF A PEACOCK
By Kano Seiun (born 1871), Meiji (1868-1912) Attributed to Hasegawa Issei, Meiji era (1868-1912),
or Taisho (1912-1926) era, late 19th/early 20th century late 19th/early 20th century
Naturalistically chiselled and with details in shakudo, shibuichi and The male peafowl naturalistically rendered with a fan-shaped crest
gold, each standing, one with its neck lowered and drawn in, 14cm on the head and its long, brilliantly coloured train of feathers trailing
(5½in) high; the other with its head elegantly raised, looking ahead, behind, the eyes inlaid in brown and blue enamel with a black centre,
29.7cm (11¾in) high, each goose signed on its belly with chiselled the plumage on its wings inlaid in contrasting shakudo, bronze,
characters Seiun and standing on a separate lacquered-wood oval shibuichi and silver, its legs of shibuichi, its neck and nape of silver,
stand embellished in gold hiramaki-e and e-nashiji simulating a river. a small bronze detachable section on its back forming the cover,
The stand: 9cm x 64cm (3½in x 25 1/8in). (3). unsigned; with a wood storage box.
18cm x 32.5cm (7 1/16in x 12¾in). (3).
£10,000 - 15,000
JPY1,500,000 - 2,200,000 £18,000 - 25,000
US$13,000 - 20,000 JPY2,600,000 - 3,600,000
US$24,000 - 33,000
Kano Seiun worked in Tokyo and studied metalworking under Oshima Hasegawa Issei worked in Tokyo during the Meiji and Taisho eras
Joun. He exhibited at the Paris Exposition in 1900 and at the Taisho and was known for his silver okimono: compare a similarly executed
Exhibition in Tokyo in 1914. One of his okimono sculptures is in the standing okimono of a peacock signed by the artist, illustrated in
collection of the Tokyo National Museum. Kiyomizu Sannenzaka Museum, Meiji no bankoku kangyo hakurankai
no saigen bijutsu ten (The Art of Meiji Era International Expositions),
Illustrated on page 121. Kyoto, 2010, p.27 and by Joe Earle ed., Splendors of Imperial Japan:
Art of the Meiji Period from the Khalili Collection, London,
The Khalili Family Trust, 2002, p.98, pl.no.50.

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