Important Paintings, Furniture, Silver and Ceramics
Live Auction, 8 October 2009
Part I - Furniture
Lot Estimate
ZAR 50 000 - 60 000
About this Item
A Japanese black lacquered and bronze mounted Shinto shrine, Meiji Period (1868-1912) the rectangular top above a pair of folding panelled doors enclosing a further pair of pierced silk-lined doors, the interior fitted with a shrine, panels carved with figures, ho-ho birds and dragons, with sliding compartments below, the panelled sides with ring handles, the later stand with a pair of drawers, on square-section legs with block feet, signed, 230cm high, 126cm wide, 84cm deep
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