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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
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Nov 9, 2017 | Bonhams | London | Fine Japanese Art | 295 | $****** - ****** | A magnificent pair of gold-lacquer and inlaid Shibayama vases with en-suite stands By Shibayama Yasumasa |
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An English private collection, purchased by the current owner's great-grandfather in the 1930s in London, and thence by descent
Each of octagonal form with four wider sides alternating with four narrower sides, the gold kinji ground lavishly decorated with the full range of Shibayama techniques including inlay of shell, ivory, red lacquer, shakudo and shibuichi; gold, aokin and silver hiramaki-e and togidashi maki-e; gold e-nashiji and Gyobu nashiji; and translucent cloisonné enamels; the narrower sides with formal ornament in togidashi maki-e, the wider sides each decorated with two partial-tsuba-shaped cartouches against a background of scattered cherry blossom, the tsuba shapes depicting a rich variety of bird-and-flower designs and figure subjects including Kintoki the Mountain Boy and Seiobo (the Queen Mother of the West); Shoki and demons; Enma-O (Judge of Hell) and a courtesan; Choryo offering a shoe to Kosekiko; Shizuka Gozen; and Tekkai Sennin and Gama Sennin, eight of them bearing the signatures of sword-fitting artists: (Hirata) Donin 道仁, (Hirata) Harunari 春就, (Hirata) Narihisa 就久, (Hirata) Nariyuki 就行, Iwamoto Konkan 岩本昆寛, (Omori) Teruhide 英秀, Suga Nagaatsu 菅長厚 and (Tsuchiya) Yasuchika 安親, the necks each with four floral medallions in translucent cloisonné enamels, the rims finished in shibuichi engraved with keyfret, each with four elephant-mask shibuichi feet with gold- and shakudo- inlaid eyes, each signed on the base in seal-style characters on red-lacquer plaques, one Shibayama 芝山 and the other Yasumasa 易政, with the original carved openwork hardwood and ivory stands. , (4).
