Live Auction 9555Asobi: Ingenious Creativity Japanese Works of Art from Antiquity to Contemporary And Ceramics from the Collection of Bernard Leach
Osuga Takashi (1901-1987)
Lot 78

Osuga Takashi (1901-1987)

CIRCA 1957

Closed15 October 2013

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GBP 5,000

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Osuga Takashi (1901-1987)
Circa 1957
A rectangular box, decorated in burnished gold and copper on a powdered pearl ground pierced with a grasshopper amongst leaves and branches, the interior in walnut wood, rims varnished in black, tomobako signed Takashi saku and sealed
13.3cm. high

Specialist note

Osuga Takashi, born in Kagawa, studied metalwork at the Tokyo School of Fine Arts and later under Kitahara Senroku (1887-1951), a pupil of Un'no Shomin (1844-1915). His works are praised for their realistic modelling of insects and were awarded a number of times at the Nitten, Teiten and Bunten during the 1920's to 1930's, and in 1958.