Lot 132
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AN IMPORTANT ART DECO STYLE FLOWER VASE
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AN IMPORTANT ART DECO STYLE FLOWER VASE

SIGNED MASACHIKA, EARLY SHOWA PERIOD (CIRCA 1930)

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AN IMPORTANT ART DECO STYLE FLOWER VASE
Signed Masachika, Early Showa Period (Circa 1930)
With chocolate-brown patination, of rectangular plan with gently bowed sides curving slightly outwards from the base towards a band of fleur-de-lys motifs on a stylised wave pattern within wire borders, no footring, signed underneath on the slightly recessed base in semi-cursive characters Masachika saku [made by Masachika]
10½in. (26.9cm.) high
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Lot Essay

Soryo Masachika seems to have exhibited only once at the official Teiten and its pre- and post-war successors, showing a bronze basin with silver inlay in art deco style at the eleventh Teiten in 1930; see Nitten Hensan Iinkai [ed.], Nittenshi [A history of the Nitten exhibition] (Tokyo, 1983), volume 9.

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