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An inlaid bronze gu-shaped vessel By Minamoto no Moriyuki, Taisho Period, dated 1926 image 1
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Lot 311*

An inlaid bronze gu-shaped vessel
By Minamoto no Moriyuki, Taisho Period, dated 1926

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

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An inlaid bronze gu-shaped vessel

By Minamoto no Moriyuki, Taisho Period, dated 1926
Of archaic form, with removable trumpet-shaped neck and spreading foot, the bulbous mid-section decorated with several cranes applied in silver, shakudo and gold takazogan in flight among stylised wisps of cloud inlaid in sentoku and gold, all reserved on a reddish-brown ground between two narrow bands of key-fret, the neck and foot of an ishime ground, simulating the bark of a pine tree, the side of the vase signed with two seals Ryoun and Moriyuki; with an inner wood storage box and outer lacquered wood tomobako, the inside of the wood lid inscribed, dated and sealed by the artist, Taisho jugonen no Aki Nanaju-ichi o Ryoun, Minamoto no Moriyuki saku (Made by Ryoun, Minamoto no Moriyuki in the Autumn of Taisho 15 [1926], an old man of seventy-one), with seal Moriyuki. 45.8cm (18in) high. (4).

Footnotes

雲鶴図觚形象嵌銅花瓶 源盛之 大正15年(1926年)

Minamoto no Moriyuki (otherwise known as Ryoun/Murakami Moriyuki) was a pupil of Unno Moritoshi, who was the nephew and student of Unno Yoshimori.

The original handwritten receipt, signed, dated and sealed by Murakami Moriyuki himself - strongly suggesting that this was a piece commissioned directly from the artist - accompanies this lot. The ink inscriptions confirms the transaction date Taisho jugo nen juichi gatsu jugo nichi (November 15th, 1926) and the purchase price of two thousand six hundred and fifty yen (daikin nisen roppyaku goju en nari) which was an extremely high sum for that time.

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