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Lot 427
A cloisonné enamel koro and cover Meiji Period
11 May 2010, 10:30 BST
London, New Bond StreetSold for £1,800 inc. premium
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Meiji Period
Intricately worked in silver wire with three frolicking shishi on a teal-blue ground, with reticulated silver cover carved with peony blossoms and removable, silvered-metal liner; unsigned. 11cm (4¼in) high. (3).
Intricately worked in silver wire with three frolicking shishi on a teal-blue ground, with reticulated silver cover carved with peony blossoms and removable, silvered-metal liner; unsigned. 11cm (4¼in) high. (3).
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獅子図七宝香炉 無銘 明治時代
Compare the design and quality with an unsigned and similarly-decorated jar in the Kiyomizu Sannenzaka Museum in Kyoto, illustrated in the Exhibition Catalogue issued by the Sano Museum in Shizuoka Prefecture, Kindai Kogei no Hana, Meiji no Shippo, p.87, pl.117, Shizuoka, 2008.
























