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Lot 264

An elaborately inlaid bronze koro and cover
Meiji Period

5 November 2009, 14:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street

£5,000 - £6,000

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An elaborately inlaid bronze koro and cover

Meiji Period
Cast in detachable sections and decorated in copper, silver and gilt takazogan and hirazogan, the body inset with two shaped panels enclosing one scene of three courtiers seated in front of a sudare and the other with sparrows flying over shrubs of peonies, applied with two handles in the form of dragons, the cover surmounted with a finial in the form of a kestrel perched atop a craggy rock, the sides similarly decorated with other kacho-ga, unsigned. 67½cm (26½in) high. (8).

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花鳥人物図銅装飾大花瓶 無銘 明治時代

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