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AN INLAID IRON CARD HOLDER
AND AN INLAID IRON CIGARETTE CASE
By Komai Otojiro of Kyoto,
Meiji era (1868-1912),
late 19th/early 20th century
Each worked in typical Komai flat relief of
gold and silver, the card case decorated on
one side with a fan-shaped panel enclosing
a family of chickens amidst flowering autumn
plants growing behind a bamboo fence and
two overlapping panels enclosing swallows
flying among irises and thatched huts set
on a lakeshore on the other, all reserved on
a ground of dense fruiting vine, unsigned,
7.2cm x 10cm (2 13/16in x 4in); the second
a cigarette case decorated with a kingfisher
flying towards an overhanging pine branch on
one side and an unidentified European family
crest on the other, bordered by fruiting vine,
signed on the inside Nihon koku Kyoto no
ju Komai sei within a square seal beneath a
dragonfly; 8.7cm x 7.7cm (3 3/8in x 3in). (2).
£1,000 - 1,500
JPY150,000 - 220,000
US$1,300 - 2,000
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AN INLAID IRON BRUSH POT
By Komai Otojiro of Kyoto, Meiji era
(1868-1912), late 19th/early 20th century
Decorated with a wide central band of silver
flat relief inlay of densely clustered shippo-
tsunagi (linked-cash) inset with two shaped
panels enclosing contrasting landscape
scenes rendered in varying degrees of relief of
gold and silver inlay, one depicting a thatched
hut nestled beneath flowering cherry branches
overhanging a waterfall and a sea inlet where
three masts are shown in the distance, a toro
(stone lantern) in the foreground, between
narrow bands of fruiting vine, the rim with
cherry blossoms, signed on the base Kyoto
no ju Komai sei. 9.3cm (3 5/8in) high.
£3,000 - 4,000
207 JPY440,000 - 580,000
US$3,900 - 5,200

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