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MORIGUCHI: A PAIR OF KOMAI-STYLE DAMASCENED IRON VASES
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2023年06月16日 开拍 / 2023年06月14日 截止委托
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MORIGUCHI: A PAIR OF KOMAI-STYLE DAMASCENED IRON VASES

By the Moriguchi workshop, each signed Moriguchi
Japan, Kyoto, Meiji period (1868-1912)

Each of baluster form, supported on a spreading foot and rising to a short waisted neck with galleried rim, finely decorated in gold and silver nunomezogan and takazogan with two shaped panels, one of a landscape with rustic dwellings, reversed by a bird amid blossoms, all on a silver diaper-patterned ground below a cloud-collar of fruiting grape vines on the shoulder, further geometric-patterned bands on the neck, rim, and foot, the recessed base with the silver-inlaid signature MORIGUCHI.

HEIGHT 13.6 cm (each)
WEIGHT 221 & 235 g

Condition: Very good condition with minor surface wear and manufacturing irregularities.
Provenance: From a Danish private collection.

The present vases are decorated in the manner of the famous Komai workshop of Kyoto. The Komai workshop is believed to have been founded in 1841, but it was only when Komai Otojiro I became its head, in 1865, that the company began to make the wares for which they were to become so famous. The workshop, under his leadership specialized in intricate inlaid work of gold and silver into iron. In a promotional brochure of about 1915 his son, Komai Otojiro II (his father having retired in 1906) called his workshop the ‘pioneer of damascene work’ and describes the process of the lacquering of the characteristic black ground, which required kiln firing and burnishing. The Komai style developed with an increasingly pictorial central motif on a background of both geometric patterns and free illustrations of nature, life, and landscapes with elaborate repeating borders. Most of these central motifs illustrate stories from Japanese history or mythology, and the Komai family retains a number of design books in which can be found drawings for many of their works.

Auction comparison:
Compare a closely related pair of inlaid-iron vases signed Moriguchi, dated late 19th century, Meiji period, 13 cm high, at Christie’s, 23 March 2011, New York, lot 749 (sold for 8,750 USD). Compare a closely related pair of damascened iron vases signed Moriguchi, dated late 19th century, Meiji period, 14.5 cm high, at Bonhams, 19 March 2014, New York, lot 3317 (sold for 8,750 USD).

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