Japanese Works of Art - 12th November 2019
Lot 293
A JAPANESE INLAID BRONZE VASE BY THE KANAZAWA COMPANY MEIJI PERIOD
Estimate £2,000 - £2,500 | Hammer £4800
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Description
A JAPANESE INLAID BRONZE VASE BY THE KANAZAWA COMPANY
MEIJI PERIOD, 19TH CENTURY
The baluster-shaped body inlaid in gold, silver and copper, with two large panels enclosing a quail under sprays of millet to one side and flowering hydrangeas to the other, with bands of formal designs to the rims and the shoulder with two large lion-head handles with loose rings, the base signed Dai Nihon Kanazawa Doki Kaisha Sei (Made by the Kanazawa bronze Company), 42.5cm.