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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nov 9, 2017 | Bonhams | London | Fine Japanese Art | 404 | $****** - ****** | A slender inlaid-iron ovoid vase By the Komai Company of Kyoto |
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25.5 cm (10.04 in)
Finely worked throughout in the typical Komai-style of silver and gold overlay, the shoulder with two elaborate silver-outlined panels enclosing different scenes including Kiyomizu-dera, Otani Mausoleum, the unmistakable Entsu Bridge built with two large holes in the shape of eye glasses in the front garden of the temple letting out the flow of the water and surrounding precincts consisting of other famous pagodas and shrines in Higashiyama at sunrise, all above a square panel enclosing a dragon emerging from waves and the other depicting butterflies hovering over stalks of ominaeshi (valerian), susuki (pampas grass) and kiku (chrysanthemums) bending in the gentle breeze in front of a brushwood fence, above a second square panel with a formal arrangement of stylised butterflies, all reserved on a ground of fragmented rinzu (textile-weave) and repeat hanabishi (flowery-diamond), diaper designs and geometric patterns, the neck and foot with a narrow band of fruiting vine; signed above the foot on the reverse Kyoto no ju Komai sei and inscribed Otani Kiyomizu no zu, with one wood storage box. (2).
