6 Nov 2012
10:30 GMT
London, New Bond Street
Fine Japanese Art Morning Session
Back to auction 20023
Fine Japanese Art Morning Session
Back to auction 20023
A wood tonkotsu (tobacco box)
By Jikan Ganbun, 19th century
Of irregular rustic oval form with tapering sides, inlaid in ebony with a mukade emerging from a hole, five ants of copper, brass and shakudo, two pine cones and needles of wood and bone, signed on an inlaid ebony tablet Jikan Ganbun.
9.2cm (3⅝in), wide.
Of irregular rustic oval form with tapering sides, inlaid in ebony with a mukade emerging from a hole, five ants of copper, brass and shakudo, two pine cones and needles of wood and bone, signed on an inlaid ebony tablet Jikan Ganbun.
9.2cm (3⅝in), wide.
Estimate:
£5,000 - 5,500
JPY 780,000 - 860,000
US$ 7,600 - 8,400
JPY 780,000 - 860,000
US$ 7,600 - 8,400
Footnotes
- 百足と蟻に松毬図木彫貼付彫金とんこつ 銘「自侃眼文」 19世紀
Provenance: F. Poncetton collection.
Published: The Meinertzhagen Card Index, p.66.
Category: Asian Art / Japanese Art
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