Sold for $25,000

Sold prices are inclusive of Buyer’s Premium

Lot Description

A Pair of Japanese Inlaid Iron 'Komai' Vases

LATE 19TH CENTURY/EARLY 20TH CENTURY

each slender ovoid body finely worked throughout in the typical Komai-style of silver and gold overlay, the main panel decorated with two large roundels, one showing scholars seated amongst bamboo outside a house, the other with butterfly and dragonfly amongst flowering plants, all set on a dense ground with flower heads with ho-oh bird, crab, butterfly and bat; above a band of suspending leaf-form panels each filled with a pair of confronting dragons, against a diaper pattern ground; all between two narrow bands with foliate scrolls to the mount and the foot; signed on the side in gold Kyoto no ju Komai sei within a rectangular panel.

Height 10 in., 25.4 cm.

Condition Report

Each in overall very good condition.

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