Lot 153 A LACQUERED-METAL KOZUKA (HANDLE FOR A SMALL UTILITY KNIFE) JAPAN, EDO PERIOD (MID-LATE 19TH CENTURY), SIGNED ZESHIN (SHIBATA ZESHIN; 1807-1891)

A LACQUERED-METAL KOZUKA (HANDLE FOR A SMALL UTILITY KNIFE) JAPAN, EDO PERIOD (MID-LATE 19TH CENTURY), SIGNED ZESHIN (SHIBATA ZESHIN; 1807-1891)

JAPAN, EDO PERIOD (MID-LATE 19TH CENTURY), SIGNED ZESHIN (SHIBATA ZESHIN; 1807-1891)

GBP 800

英鎊 800 – 英鎊 1,200

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細節: A LACQUERED-METAL <i>KOZUKA</i> (HANDLE FOR A SMALL UTILITY KNIFE)
JAPAN, EDO PERIOD (MID-LATE 19TH CENTURY), SIGNED <i>ZESHIN</i> (SHIBATA ZESHIN; 1807-1891)
The ground finished in gray-silver <i>shibuichi-nuri </i>to imitate a metal block, meticulously engraved in <i>katakiri</i> and <i>kebori </i>with Hotei, the God of Happiness, seated on a boat beside his treasure sack and holding a fan, after a design by Yokoya Somin, inscribed in lightly incised characters on the reverse <i>Shokado utsushi Somin</i> (made by Somin after a painting by Shokado [Shokado Shojo, 1584-1639]) with a <i>kao</i>, signed <i>Zeshin.</i>
3 ¾ in. (9.5 cm.) long

來源: Wrangham Collection.