Live Auction 15769Japanese and Korean Art
A SHIBUICHI TRIPOD INCENSE BURNER
Lot 70

A SHIBUICHI TRIPOD INCENSE BURNER

TAISHO PERIOD (DATED 1915 SPRING), SIGNED KAGAWA KATSUHIRO SAKU (1853-1917) AND SEALED IN GILT EIRAKU

Closed18 April 2018

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A SHIBUICHI TRIPOD INCENSE BURNER
TAISHO PERIOD (DATED 1915 SPRING), SIGNED KAGAWA KATSUHIRO SAKU (1853-1917) AND SEALED IN GILT EIRAKU
The tripod body encircled by a band finely chiseled with a motif of hares and lotus leaves, the domed lid chiseled and pierced, applied with a removable silver liner, signature on base
4 ¾ in. (12.1 cm.) diameter
With an original wood box titled Oborogin sei koro (Shibuichi incense burner), signed and dated Taisho kinoto-u shoshun (1915 Spring) teishitsugigeiin Kagawa Katsuhiro saku (made by Kagawa Katsuhiro, Imperial Household Artist) and sealed teishitsugigein Kagawa Katsuhiro, accompanied with a tokubetsu kicho kodogu certificate issued by the N.B.T.H.K., dated Showa 55 (1980)

Fujoan Collection

Specialist note

An Edo (later Tokyo) native, Katsuhiro apprenticed as a boy to a carver of Noh masks before studying drawing under Shibata Zeshin and metalworking under Nomura Katsumori and the eminent Kano Natsuo. A frequent participant in national and international exhibitions, he was appointed a professor at the Tokyo School of Fine Arts in 1903. Like his mentor Natsuo, Katsuhiro joined the elite membership of Teishitsu Gigein (Artists to the Imperial Household) in 1906, insuring him important commissions, exposure and recognition.
Katsuhiro is known as a master of katakiri-bori technique (sculpting with oblique cuts of the chisel in simulation of brush strokes) showing extremely delicate lines and graceful figures on this work.