MEIJI PERIOD (LATE 19TH CENTURY)

Masterful Exuberance
Meiji Period Works of Art from a Private Collection (Lots 1-51)
THE PROPERTY OF A LADY

Two Metalwork Boxes
Meiji period (late 19th century)
The first bronze, chiselled and inlaid in low and high relief with copper, silvered copper and gilt with birds and butterflies flying among flowers and grasses, hinged cover

The second iron, from the Komai workshop, worked in gold and silver nunomezogan and hirazogan with a shaped panel enclosing a landscape depicting Higashiyama in Kyoto, with blossoming trees, pines and strolling people, surrounded by a border of foliage motif, the side with various bands including foliage, key-fret design and stylised flowerheads, the gilt interior with cranes in flight, the base with scattered cherry flowers
14cm. wide (bronze box) and 9.2cm. wide (iron box)

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