NAMIKAWA SOSUKE
Cloisonne-Enamel Rounded Rectangular Tray , 1868 (Executed)
Lot #140 |
2024-05-16 |
Bonhams, London, New Bond Street
Fine Japanese Art Including Meiji Masterpieces from a Distinguished Deceased Estate
Category:
Decorative Arts
Estimate:
GBP 12,000 - 15,000 (currency of sale)
USD 15,188 - 18,985 (approx.)
Price Sold:
Auction Details
Auction house: Bonhams
Auction number: 29552
Auction name: Fine Japanese Art Including Meiji Masterpieces from a Distinguished Deceased Estate
Auction type: Fine Art
Location: London, New Bond Street
Start date: 2024-05-16
End date: 2024-05-16
Currency: GBP
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Lot Description
Details
Genre: Meiji Era Art
Department: Decorative & Applied Arts
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Dimensions: 16.8cm x 23cm (6 5/8in x 9in)
Item measurements:
Height In Centimeters:
16.8
Width In Centimeters:
23
Height In Inches:
6.625
Width In Inches:
9
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Year notes: Executed in the Meiji era (1868-1912).
Catalog summary
NAMIKAWA SOSUKE (1847-1910) OF TOKYO AFTER A DESIGN BY WATANABE SEITEI (1851-1918) A Cloisonné-Enamel Rounded Rectangular Tray Meiji era (1868-1912), late 19th/early 20th century Delicately worked predominantly in musen ('wireless') technique and decorated with a painterly design of three white-plumaged cockerels on a light grey ground, their combs and wattles in red musen and their beaks and eyes outlined in gold wire, within a shakudo rim, signed on the right side Seitei and sealed, the reverse worked in gilt wire and enamels with numerous densely patterned cherry blossoms in pale brown on a dark plum-coloured ground; signed in silver wire with a single character Sakigake (the seal of Namikawa Sosuke). 16.8cm x 23cm (6 5/8in x 9in).