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AN IMPRESSIVE OPENWORK BRONZE KORO [INCENSE BURNER]
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AN IMPRESSIVE OPENWORK BRONZE KORO [INCENSE BURNER]

WITH SIGNATURE SEIMIN, MEIJI PERIOD (LATE 19TH CENTURY)

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AN IMPRESSIVE OPENWORK BRONZE KORO [INCENSE BURNER]
With signature Seimin, Meiji Period (Late 19th Century)
The flattened spherical six-lobed body with two large vertical handles and a projecting rim, supported on three tapering legs joined by keyfret stretchers with a pendant ornaments, the legs resting on a trilobate base with a central cavity with a lid carved as a dragon and clouds, the lid with six large openings surmounted by a horned shishi controlling its frolicking cub, the whole surface with intricate low-relief ornament and variously decorated with cloud, dragon and wave designs, each of the six sides of the body each with a lobed panel of openwork keyfret applied with a kirin, with six ho-o birds around the rim on the depressions between the lobes, with signature on the reverse of one of the legs Dainihon Bunsei-nen Seimin chu [cast by Seimin of great Japan in the Bunsei period (1818-30)
40in. (102cm.) high
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VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.

Lot Essay

This signature, used by the famous bronzecaster Murata Seimin (1761-1837), is routinely found on pieces of somewhat later date. For another example of a large bronze with a separate, detachable ornament in the centre of the base see Joe Earle, Splendors of Meiji: Treasures of Imperial Japan, Masterpieces from the Khalili Collection (St. Petersburg, Florida, Broughton International Publications, 1999), cat. no. 000

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