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42 A SOFT-METAL-INLAID BRONZE TRAY

EDO-MEIJI PERIOD (19TH CENTURY), SIGNED DAINIHON ISHIKAWAKEN KANKA
ECCHUKOKU NIIGAWAGUN TOYAMA IHOSAI HIRAISHI CHIKAYUKI (CARVED BY
HIRAISHI CHIKAYUKI IN TOYAMA PREFECTURE) AND CURSIVE MONOGRAM
The circular tray set on three feet of
overlapping wheels, elaborately inlaid in gold,
silver, copper, shakudoand shibuichi with a
scenery of Ukifune(A Boat upon the Waters),
chapter 51 from the Tale of Genji, the rim with
a boarder of hollyhock, the incised signature on
a gold tablet mounted on base
13 in. (33 cm.) diameter

$15,000-20,000

Tosa Mitsuyoshi (1539–1613). A Boat Cast Adrift (Ukifune). Japan. Edo period, late16th-
early 17th century. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Fletcher Fund, 1955,
55.94.1, .2