KAMAKURA PERIOD (13TH CENTURY)

Details

An Early Kei [Chime]
Kamakura Period (13th Century)
Of cast and chiselled bronze, each side with two ho-o birds on either side of a lotus pedestal viewed from above, within a scalloped border, with fitted wood box
9 3/8in. (23.7cm.) long

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Lot Essay

For a number of similar examples of 12th to 13th-century date, see Tokyo Kokuritsu Hakubutsukan [Tokyo National Museum], Nihon no kinko [Japanese metalwork] (Exhibition catalogue; Tokyo, 1983), cat. nos. 112-116.

A similar example was sold in these Rooms, 17 June 1997, Lot 367.

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