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    Japanese and Korean Art

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    16 September 2003

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    • A Wood Kettle Hanger (Jizai)
    Lot 312

    A Wood Kettle Hanger (Jizai)

    20TH CENTURY

    Price realised

    USD 1,195

    Estimate

    USD 1,500 - USD 2,000

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    A Wood Kettle Hanger (Jizai)
    20th century
    The hanger carved from a single block of zelkova wood and fitted with jizai gake (vertical supports for suspension ropes), with dark, rich patina and deep grooves in the curvature from the rope suspending a kettle; with fitted metal stand
    26¼in. (66.6cm.) high

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    Lot Essay

    For another kettle hanger in the Jeffrey Montgomery collection see Michael Dunn, Five Tastes, exh. cat. (New York: Japan Society, Inc., 2001), pl. 10.

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