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Lot 284*
An inlaid silver kashiki for confectinery By Kobayashi Chikamitsu, Meiji Period
5 November 2009, 14:00 GMT
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By Kobayashi Chikamitsu, Meiji Period
Decorated in deep katakiri with a clump of iris and grasses on a shibuichi ground, with details inlaid in gilt and silver, the body of silvered metal, carved all over with a basket-work design in low relief, the cover surmounted by a finial in the form of a bamboo node, with removable ensuite lacquered wood liner, the inside of the cover with a simple chiselled decoration of a sprig of kiku and signature Chikamitsu to. 16½cm (6½in) diam. (3).
Decorated in deep katakiri with a clump of iris and grasses on a shibuichi ground, with details inlaid in gilt and silver, the body of silvered metal, carved all over with a basket-work design in low relief, the cover surmounted by a finial in the form of a bamboo node, with removable ensuite lacquered wood liner, the inside of the cover with a simple chiselled decoration of a sprig of kiku and signature Chikamitsu to. 16½cm (6½in) diam. (3).
Footnotes
菖蒲図象嵌銀菓子器 小林親光 明治時代
Little is known of the maker beyond his name which is listed in Wakayama Homatsu (Takeshi) ed., kinko jiten, (A dictionary of metalworkers), Tokyo, 1972, 233. The Khalili Collection includes a box with three fan-shaped panels bearing the same signature.
Another similar sweet box was exhibited by Malcolm Fairley, London, in November 2002, illustrated, Japanese works of Art, no.15.
























