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A metal curved-rectangular chaki (tea scoop) By Kano Natsuo (1828-1898), Edo period, 19th century (2) image 1
A metal curved-rectangular chaki (tea scoop) By Kano Natsuo (1828-1898), Edo period, 19th century (2) image 2
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A metal curved-rectangular chaki (tea scoop)
By Kano Natsuo (1828-1898), Edo period, 19th century

16 May 2019, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

£15,000 - £18,000

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A metal curved-rectangular chaki (tea scoop)

By Kano Natsuo (1828-1898), Edo period, 19th century
Patinated to simulate sentoku, finely engraved in delicate katakiri-bori and kebori with rain falling over a lotus bud and two large partially worm-eaten leaves, the reverse silvered, signed on bottom right Natsuo koku; with double wood storage boxes, inscribed outside the lid of the inner box Shinchu [...]te hasu kebori chaki (Brass [...] tea scoop with design of lotus in kebori), inside the lid with two seals, one reading Natsuo. 14.7cm x 5.1cm (5¾in x 2in). (2).

Footnotes

The drawing for the tea scoop presented here is published by Miyake Teruyoshi, ed., Natsuo taikan: Kengu shitazu soko (A Comprehensive Collection of Natsuo: Preliminary Drawings and Drafts for Sword Fittings), Tokyo, Chugoku Pearl Hanbai Kabushikigaisha, 1990, p.306 (image on far right).

For a similar example, see Tabako to Shio no Hakubutsukan (Tobacco and Salt Museum), Meiji no chokin: Kano Natsuo to sono jidai (Metalwork in the Meiji Era: Kano Natsuo and His Times), Kyoto, 1987, cat. no.26.

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