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Lot 309*

A fan-shaped bronze panel
By Sekiguchi Ichiya (1850-1933), Showa Period

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

£800 - £1,000

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A fan-shaped bronze panel

By Sekiguchi Ichiya (1850-1933), Showa Period
Carved in katakiribori and decorated in tones of silver, gold, copper and bronze with Hotei, the corpulent God of Happiness, typically depicted dragging his treasure sack and accompanied by two boisterous karako; one blowing a horn; signed nanaju-hachi o Jitokusai Ichiya koku (inscribed by an old man of seventy-eight, Jitokusai Ichiya) with kakihan, set in a wood mount, framed and glazed. The fan 46cm x 16½cm (18 1/8in x 6½in).

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布袋唐子図扇形銅額 自得斎一也(関口一也) 昭和時代

Sekiguchi Ichiya was born in 1850 in Tokyo. He started metalwork in 1864 at the age of fifteen, studying under Goto Korai and Goto Ichijo for ten years and was given the artist name Ichiya around 1870. He was particularly noted for his metal inlay, coloured metal patination, takabori carving and his sword fittings. The artist exhibited at the Paris Exposition in 1900 and the Japan-British Exhibition of 1910.

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