A bronze and mixed-metal box and cover

MEIJI PERIOD (LATE 19TH CENTURY), SIGNED DAI NIHON KYOTO JU IKKODO MIYABE ATSUYOSHI AND WITH KAO (CURSIVE MONOGRAM)

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A bronze and mixed-metal box and cover
Meiji period (late 19th century), signed Dai Nihon Kyoto ju Ikkodo Miyabe Atsuyoshi and with kao (cursive monogram)
The rectangular box set on four short bracket feet mounted on the cover with a rounded rectangular bronze panel decorated in gold, silver and copper takazogan and hirazogan and incised details with two egrets perched on wisteria vines surveying a flush-inlaid silver school of fish swimming in a river below, inlaid with butterflies, the interior lined with silver and incised on the underside of lid and inlaid around the sides with butterflies; signature incised on base
5¼ x 3½ x 2in. (13.3 x 8.8 x 5cm.)

Lot Essay

Miyabe Atsuyoshi of the Ikkodo firm, Kyoto, exhibited his metalwork at the Louisiana Purchase Exhibition, held in St. Louis in 1904. For a censer by Atsuyoshi, see Oliver Impey and Malcolm Fairley, eds., Metalwork, vol. 2 of Meiji no Takara Treasures of Imperial Japan: The Nasser D Khalili Collection of Japanese Art (London: The Kibo Foundation, 1995), cat. no. 93.

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