Details
FOUR HIRATA SCHOOL FUCHI, A MURAKAMI SCHOOL FUCHI-KASHIRA, SIX OTHERS AND A KASHIRA
Signed, Edo period (late 18th/early 19th Century)
Shakudo migaki-ji decorated with takaramono in shippo and gilt wire zogan; brass decorated with shippo bands; shakudo ishime-ji decorated with shaped panels depicting sunrise in shippo zogan; shakudo migaki-ji decorated with daffodils in shippo zogan; shakudo migaki-ji decorated with a spider web and dragonfly in takabori, gold and silver zogan, signed Josen; shibuichi migaki-ji depicting a dragon in silver and copper takazogan, signed Shoei and kao; shakudo migaki-ji depicting a plum tree in katakiribori and silver hirazogan, signed Johaku and kao; shakudo nanako Umetada school, with a spider in takabori and gold iroe zogan, signed Naritoshi and kao; Edo shibuichi depicting yakko in gold, silver and copper hirazogan, signed Edo ju Tomoyoshi and kao; chirimen ishime-ji shakudo depicting reeds in takabori and gold zogan, signed Tamagawa Yoshihisa mon Seiyoken Yoshihiro and kao; shibuichi migaki-ji Mito kinko depicting Minamoto Yoshimasa killing the nue in gold, silver and copper zogan, signed Seishinken santon Motoshige; and a shakudo kashira of Daruma in takabori and shibuichi takazogan, details in gilt (13)
Provenance
The 6th fuchi; Hawkshaw Collection, p. 177, pl. XXXVI, no. 2316.
The 9th fuchi; Hawkshaw Collection, p. 177, pl. XXXVI, no. 2311.
The 10th fuchi; Trower, pl. N, no. 1768
Literature
The first eleven Lundgren Collection, nos 273, 274, 275, 276, 267, 266, 269, 278, 285, 304 and 312 respectively