KAMAKURA PERIOD (14TH CENTURY)

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A Bronze Ewer
Kamakura Period (14th Century)
Of shigi form, decorated with slight circumferential bands and stylised foliate ornamentation to the curved spout
10¾in. (27.3cm.) high

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Lot Essay

For similar examples see The Freer Gallery of Art, II Japan (Tokyo, n.d.), pl. 97 and Nara National Museum, Flowers of Buddhist Applied Arts (Nara, 1982), pl. 100, p. 123 from the collection of the Chogosonshi-ji Temple, Nara Prefecture.

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