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Lot 205
An inlaid iron card holder and an inlaid iron cigarette case By Komai Otojiro of Kyoto, Meiji era (1868-1912), late 19th/early 20th century
16 May 2019, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond Street£1,000 - £1,500
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By Komai Otojiro of Kyoto, Meiji era (1868-1912), late 19th/early 20th century
Each worked in typical Komai flat relief of gold and silver, the card case decorated on one side with a fan-shaped panel enclosing a family of chickens amidst flowering autumn plants growing behind a bamboo fence and two overlapping panels enclosing swallows flying among irises and thatched huts set on a lakeshore on the other, all reserved on a ground of dense fruiting vine, unsigned, 7.2cm x 10cm (2 13/16in x 4in); the second a cigarette case decorated with a kingfisher flying towards an overhanging pine branch on one side and an unidentified European family crest on the other, bordered by fruiting vine, signed on the inside Nihon koku Kyoto no ju Komai sei within a square seal beneath a dragonfly; 8.7cm x 7.7cm (3 3/8in x 3in). (2).
Each worked in typical Komai flat relief of gold and silver, the card case decorated on one side with a fan-shaped panel enclosing a family of chickens amidst flowering autumn plants growing behind a bamboo fence and two overlapping panels enclosing swallows flying among irises and thatched huts set on a lakeshore on the other, all reserved on a ground of dense fruiting vine, unsigned, 7.2cm x 10cm (2 13/16in x 4in); the second a cigarette case decorated with a kingfisher flying towards an overhanging pine branch on one side and an unidentified European family crest on the other, bordered by fruiting vine, signed on the inside Nihon koku Kyoto no ju Komai sei within a square seal beneath a dragonfly; 8.7cm x 7.7cm (3 3/8in x 3in). (2).
























