Details
A GOTO SCHOOL KOGAI
MUROMACHI PERIOD (CIRCA 1550), ATTESTED TO GOTO JOSHIN BY GOTO RENJO, THE MENUKI ASSOCIATED
The shakudo kogai is decorated with a nanako ground and a design of a bull tethered to a stump, a feed bin to the right. The associated menuki show two bulls with the rope in sheet gold (uttori). The kogai is incised Saku Joshin and signed Renjo with kao--length of kogai 27.7cm., width 1.3cm., thickness 5.75mm.
Double wood storage boxes. Inner box with inscription by Sato Kanzan, dated summer, 1975.
Accompanied by an original origami dated seventh day of the sixth month of Jokyo 2 (1685) and signed Goto Renjo, which states "Shakudo ushi kogai saku Joshin" and values the work at two gold pieces; and by a juyo kodogu certificate issued by the N.B.T.H.K., no. 3981, and dated June 1st, 1971.
Provenance
Amiya (Ogura Soemon)
Alexander Moslé
Joseph U. Seo, New York
Parke-Bernet, New York, May 12 & 13, 1948, lot 58.
Literature
Moslé (1932), vol. I, p. 91.
Juyo token (1971), vol. 20, part II, p. 106.
Homma, Sato, Ogawa and Compton (1976), no. XXXV, p. 132.
L'Arcade Chaumet (1976), no. 17, p. 7.
N.B.T.H.K. (1978), no. 253, frontispiece.
One Hundred Masterpieces (1992), no. 74.
