MEIJI PERIOD (LATE 19TH CENTURY)

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An Impressive Openwork Bronze Koro [Incense Burner]
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 pendant ornaments (one missing), the legs resting on a trilobate base with a central cavity and a lid carved as a dragon and clouds, a small crystal in one of its claws, 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, 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, slight old damage
39¾in. (101cm.) high

注意事項

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拍品專文

A very similar example was sold in these Rooms on 20 June 2001, Lot 100. For another example of a large bronze with a separate, detachable ornament in the centre of the base see Joe Earle, Splendors of Imperial Japan, Masterpieces of the Meiji Period from the Khalili Collection (London, 2002), cat. no. 187.