Live Auction 14709The Pavilion Sale Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art
AN ENAMEL AND SOFT-METAL-INLAID IRON INCENSE BURNER
Lot 60

AN ENAMEL AND SOFT-METAL-INLAID IRON INCENSE BURNER

SEALED KOICHI SHIN (TAKASAKI KOICHI), MEIJI PERIOD, LATE 19TH CENTURY

Closed2 October 2017

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HKD 812,500

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AN ENAMEL AND SOFT-METAL-INLAID IRON INCENSE BURNER
SEALED KOICHI SHIN (TAKASAKI KOICHI), MEIJI PERIOD, LATE 19TH CENTURY
The ovoid iron body finely hammered and applied with two silver handles of lotus buds and leaves, inlaid in various gold, silver and applied with polychrome enamels with swimming carps in lotus pond, the pierced lid set with a lotus finial finely worked in silver and enamel, inlaid enamel seal on underside.
8 ¼ in. (21 cm.) high, original wood stand, Japanese wood box

Specialist note

Enamel works were first produced in Japan in the mid-19th century, which were decorated with rough and dark enamelling in crude imitation of Chinese prototypes. However, shortly by the late 1880s, a new level of refinement was achieved.

Takasaki Koichi is known as one of the most prominent metal-artists of the Meiji period and he exhibited a pair of silver vases with applied enamel at the International Exposition held in Paris in 1900.

For a work by the same artist, see Enamel, vol. 3 of Meiji no Takara Treasures of Imperial Japan: The Nasser D. Khalili Collection of Japanese Art, Oliver Impey and Malcolm Fairley, gen. eds. (London: The Kibo Foundation, 1995), no. 80.