Live Auction, 7 October 2019
Lot Estimate
R 15 000 - 20 000
Selling Price
Incl. Buyer's Premium and VAT
Incl. Buyer's Premium and VAT
R 15 932
About this Item
A Japanese bronze and gilt two-handled vase, Meiji period, 1868-1912
the ovoid body finely chiselled with a winged kirin picked out in gilt amongst clouds, the reverse with a ho-ho bird before a flowering tree, the shoulders applied with a pair of masks, their horns forming the handles, the neck with a band of stylized bats, raised on three cockerel-headed scroll supports, on an engraved stepped circular base, with detachable liner, 28,5cm high
the ovoid body finely chiselled with a winged kirin picked out in gilt amongst clouds, the reverse with a ho-ho bird before a flowering tree, the shoulders applied with a pair of masks, their horns forming the handles, the neck with a band of stylized bats, raised on three cockerel-headed scroll supports, on an engraved stepped circular base, with detachable liner, 28,5cm high
Provenance
The Andrew Newall Collection.