Live Auction 9155The Japanese Aesthetic
An Iron Vase
Lot 409

An Iron Vase

SIGNED IKKOKUSAI, MEIJI PERIOD (LATE 19TH CENTURY)

Closed17 December 2013

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GBP 5,000

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An Iron Vase
Signed Ikkokusai, Meiji period (late 19th century)
Worked in gold and shakudo takazogan, hirazogan and gilt, with pigeons perched in a maple tree, the shoulder and foot with peony karakusa, the neck with lappet-shaped panels containing archaic motif and a stylised ho-o and butterflies, bronze liner
29.7cm. high

Specialist note

For other works by this artist see Oliver Impey and Malcolm Fairley eds., Meiji no Takara, Treasures of Imperial Japan: The Nasser D Khalili Collection of Japanese Art, Metalwork Part I (London, 1995), cat. no. 40, 45 and 46