Lot Essay
For an export ornament made by the Komai Company, see Joe Earle, Splendors of Imperial Japan: Arts of the Meiji Period from the Khalili Collection (London: The Khalili Family Trust, 2002), p. 88, fig. 38.
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MEIJI PERIOD (LATE 19TH CENTURY), SIGNED KYOTO KOMAI HAJIME SAKU
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A pagoda-form inlaid-iron table cabinet
Meiji period (late 19th century), signed Kyoto Komai Hajime saku
The cabinet in pagoda form, inlaid in gilt nunomezogan and hirazogan, silver and shakudo, the two sides of the removable roof decorated with dragons among clouds on stylized waves; the middle section with handles, pillars decorated with wood grain and square panels with a peony design; the rounded lower section with two hinged doors decorated with phoenixes, treasures, eight landscape roundels and a lion mask above the doors; the sides filled with stylized tortoiseshell patterns; the inside of the doors and faces of the drawers probably with the Eight Views of Lake Biwa (Omi hakkei), on four bracket feet, signature on the underside of the roof (made by Komai Hajime of Kyoto)
16½in. (40.2cm.) high
Meiji period (late 19th century), signed Kyoto Komai Hajime saku
The cabinet in pagoda form, inlaid in gilt nunomezogan and hirazogan, silver and shakudo, the two sides of the removable roof decorated with dragons among clouds on stylized waves; the middle section with handles, pillars decorated with wood grain and square panels with a peony design; the rounded lower section with two hinged doors decorated with phoenixes, treasures, eight landscape roundels and a lion mask above the doors; the sides filled with stylized tortoiseshell patterns; the inside of the doors and faces of the drawers probably with the Eight Views of Lake Biwa (Omi hakkei), on four bracket feet, signature on the underside of the roof (made by Komai Hajime of Kyoto)
16½in. (40.2cm.) high
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