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388 - An archaistic bronze hexagonal usubata, inlaid with silver Of flaring hexagonal section, the six facets rising from a short waisted stem and spreading to a sharply faceted, widely everted rim. Each facet is engraved and inlaid in silver with a sayagata ground of interlocking manji, reserving a large stylised blossom above a pair of butterflies in flight, the rim bordered by a narrow band of key fret. The vase, of warm golden-brown tone, lifts from a separate stand of dark patinated bronze formed as peony trees, their gnarled trunks and openwork branches modelled in the round and massed with lobed leaves, full blossoms and tight buds, rising from a hexagonal base with canted sides. The base is inlaid in silver with a key-fret band and pierced at the centre with a hexagonal opening, the upper surface engraved with scrolling tendrils. W: 30cm H: 29cm Japan, Meiji era

Starting price

JPY 50,000 (€285)

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Estimation

JPY 120,000 - 220,000 (€680 - 1,300)

Sale fees

17%

An archaistic bronze hexagonal usubata, inlaid with silver Of flaring hexagonal section, the six facets rising from a short waisted stem and spreading to a sharply faceted, widely everted rim. Each facet is engraved and inlaid in silver with a sayagata ground of interlocking manji, reserving a large stylised blossom above a pair of butterflies in flight, the rim bordered by a narrow band of key fret. The vase, of warm golden-brown tone, lifts from a separate stand of dark patinated bronze formed as peony trees, their gnarled trunks and openwork branches modelled in the round and massed with lobed leaves, full blossoms and tight buds, rising from a hexagonal base with canted sides. The base is inlaid in silver with a key-fret band and pierced at the centre with a hexagonal opening, the upper surface engraved with scrolling tendrils. W: 30cm H: 29cm Japan, Meiji era

Auction details

5th BANRI Auction
Tuesday, October 27
04:00 AM
Ginza Yokyo Hall
104-0061 Tokyo, Japan

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Banri Auction +81 3 34 65 53 65 info@banri-auction.co.jp
On Drouot for less than a year

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