Japanese Works of Art - 20th May 2026

Lot 561

AN UNUSUAL JAPANESE INKSTONE BOX AND COVER

Estimate £400 - £600 | Hammer £300

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Description

AN UNUSUAL JAPANESE INKSTONE BOX AND COVER
MEIJI ERA, 19TH/20TH CENTURY

With a biscuit body and cover, topped by a small glazed boy modelled in the round, the child seemingly crawling toward a gintsugi silver repair, the underside of the lid possibly marked Keiga Mitsugo, and with a poem in a leaf to the base, 12cm. (2)

WITHOUT RESERVE