Description
Okimono - bronze - Heavy usubata flower vase in the shape of a gentle looking boy with several silverinlaid decorations - Japan - Taishō period (1912-1926)
Very good condition, see description - 28×31.8×31.8 cm
Yellow-brown bronze usubata flower vase in 2 parts. A boy with long nicely detailed hair lifting the vase part of the usubata on his shoulder, marked at the back: Eizan. The top surface of the upper part of the vase is silver inlaid with silver, depicting a phoenix bird and a paulownia tree twig. Very nice patina with some very light traces of age and use. The young boy has a soft and gentle expression. In many places, his robe is silver encrusted with some abstracted decorations of waves, pine trees and geometrical patterns. Meiji – Taisho Period.
H.: 28 cm; D.: 31.8 cm;
6.75 kg
Lot details
- Object
- Okimono
- Material
- bronze
- Period
- Taishō period (1912-1926)
- Region/ Country of origin
- Japan
- Title of artwork
- Heavy usubata flower vase in the shape of a gentle looking boy with several silverinlaid decorations
- Condition
- Very good condition, see description
- Dimensions
- 28×31.8×31.8 cm