花瓶 - 青銅色, 青铜，手工镀金（高冈铜器） - 日本 - 午夜蓝 金色 绿色 (沒有保留價)

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作品标题：日本 高岡銅器 Takaoka Bronze 花入れ Vase — 群青 Midnight Blue, 金彩 Gold Gilding & 苔緑 Moss-Green Patina

Japanese Takaoka Bronze Flower Vase — Midnight Blue, Gold Gilding & Green Mottled Glaze

This elegant pear-shaped vase (hanaire) is a masterwork of Takaoka Copperware (高岡銅器), showcasing one of the tradition's most sophisticated surface finishing techniques. The deep navy-black ground shimmers with scattered gold gilding (kinzai), while organic clusters of moss-green patina drift across the surface like lichen on ancient stone. Under shifting light, the piece transforms — revealing cobalt blue, warm gold, and deep black in turn, making it a living, ever-changing object of contemplation.

Takaoka Copperware, originating in Toyama Prefecture over 400 years ago and designated as a Japanese National Traditional Craft in 1975, is celebrated worldwide for its mastery of alloy casting and multi-layered patination. This vase exemplifies that legacy: the luminous color complexity is achieved through painstaking hand-applied chemical patination and gilding by skilled craftsmen — a process that cannot be replicated mechanically.

The graceful silhouette — a swelling teardrop body rising to a slender neck with a gently flared rim — is a classical Japanese flower vase form, equally suited to ikebana display or as a standalone decorative sculpture.

Size
Height: 22 cm
Width: 12 cm (max diameter)

Weight: 966 g

Condition
In good overall condition; minor age-related surface variation is present, consistent with a vintage Takaoka piece.

Artist Profile
No individual artist signature. This piece belongs to the Takaoka Copperware (高岡銅器) tradition of Takaoka City, Toyama Prefecture, Japan — a craft with over 400 years of history, designated as a National Traditional Craft in 1975. Takaoka produces approximately 90% of Japan's cast bronze output and is internationally recognized for its advanced casting, chasing, and multi-layered patination techniques.

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