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A KOMAI-STYLE GILT-DAMASCENED IRON HEXAGONAL BOX AND COVER, WITH FUKU MARK
AK0924 - LOT 110
Marked Fuku
Japan, Kyoto, Meiji period (1868-1912)
Finely decorated in predominantly gold nunome-zogan in the manner of the Komai company, the top of the hinged cover with a central medallion enclosing a landscape with a shrine and other buildings between towering trees, all below Mount Fuji in the background, surrounded by a dense design of maple leaves borne on twisting vines repeated on the sides below a band of flowerheads, the base finely engraved in katakiri-bori with three plovers perched on a flowering prunus branch, above a small fan-shaped reserve incised with a two-character mark reading Fuku (‘luck’), the interior of the box similarly decorated with a duck on a rocky outcrop amid grasses and a chrysanthemum above another duck in the water below birds flying in the distance.
WEIGHT 69.2 g
SIZE 1.9 x 4 x 4.6 cm
Condition: Good condition with minor wear, small nicks and tiny dents to edges, light scratches to base and interior.
Provenance: From a private collection in southern England.
Museum comparison:
Compare a related hexagonal box signed by Komai of Kyoto in the Victoria & Albert Museum, accession number M.254:1-1928.
Auction comparison:
Compare a related small iron box, by the Komai company, at Christie’s, Japanese Art: Meiji Period Magnificence, 24 June 2014, New York, lot 18 (sold for USD 3,500).
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