Two Nara School Fuchi-Kashira And A Mito Kinko Fuchi-Kashira

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Two Nara School Fuchi-Kashira And A Mito Kinko Fuchi-Kashira
Depicting flowers and bamboo in takabori, gold and silver zogan, signed Nara saku, mid Edo period (18th century); the shinchu yasuri-me base metal decorated with a design of bracken in takabori and copper zogan; and the shakudo migaki-ji base depicting a castle in the rain to the kashira and boats to the fuchi in takabori, gold, silver, copper and shibuichi zogan, signed Seishin ken Mototoshi, late Edo period (19th century) (6)

Literature

Lundgren Collection, nos. 247, 248 and 300 respectively

Exhibited

The third Red Cross Exhibition, (1915), p. 163, pl. CXLI, no. 977 (lent by Mr Clarke Edwards)

Lot Essay

The signature Nara saku is shiire hin and of better than usual standard. It can also be seen on the works of other schools e.g. Choshu Hagi Kawaji saku, Inshu ju Suruga saku, Aizu ju Shoami saku, Echizen ju Haruta saku and several others.

For a similar example to the second piece, see Ikeda, S, Nara Sansaku, (Chugoku paal, Tokyo, 1991), no. 87.

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