AN OGAWA SCHOOL TSUBA

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AN OGAWA SCHOOL TSUBA
MEIJI ERA (DATED MEIJI 4 [1871]), SIGNED MEIJI KANOTO HITSUJI RINSHO OITE TOBU BOKUSEN [NO] WARE TEIKAN AND SEALED NIJU

The oblong octagonal shakudo plate is dished from the rim to the center area. The web is inlaid in gold, silver, and shakudo with a bird perched in a branch of flowering magnolia. The design extends to the reverse and depicts magnolia and another flowering plant. The edge is covered in a heavy gold rim cover--height 6.3cm., width 5cm., thickness 4.5mm.

來源

Kano Oshima
Parke-Bernet, New York, lot

拍品專文

Ogawa Teikan (Sadamoto, 1825-1878) was a retainer of the Sanke branch line of the Tokugawa family, daimyo of Mito in Hitachi Province. He was a prolific and skilled artist whose work occasionally equals that of Kano Natsuo.