SIGNED IPPU, LATE MEIJI PERIOD (LATE 19TH CENTURY)

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A BRONZE VASE
Signed Ippu, Late Meiji Period (Late 19th Century)
With pale yellowish-brown patination, cast in low-relief and engraved with a Pekingese wearing a ruff and playing with a buriburi [rolling toy] and a tasselled cord, the toy and other details embellished with gold, silver, shakudo [copper-gold alloy] and copper, signed near the foot in incised characters Ippu Koku [carved by Ippu] with a seal Mitsu
10 5/8in. (27cm.) high

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Lot Essay

Kajima Ippu (1828-1900) exhibited extensively at the third Naikoku Kankgyo Hakurankai [National Industrial Exposition] held in 1890.1 For a large-scale example of his nunome [gold damascene] work see Kaneko Kenji, Meiji no soshoku kogei [Decorative art of the Meiji period], Taiyo, Bessatsu [Special issue] (Tokyo, Heibonsha, Summer 1990), p. 80

1 Tokyo Kokuritsu Bunkazai Kenkyujo [Tokyo National Research Institution of Cultural Properties], Naikoku kangyo hakurankai bijutsuhin shuppin mokuroku [Catalogs of objects exhibited at the National Industrial Expositions] (Tokyo, Chuokoron Bijutsu Shuppan, 1996), IIIb 292, 540, 605-6, 608, 674

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