Bronze and Iron Covered Vase Bronze and Iron Covered Vase Bronze and Iron Covered Vase Bronze and Iron Covered Vase Bronze and Iron Covered Vase Bronze and Iron Covered Vase Bronze and Iron Covered Vase Bronze and Iron Covered Vase Bronze and Iron Covered Vase Bronze and Iron Covered Vase
A Magnificent Japanese Bronze and Iron Vase

Meiji Period, circa 1880

On four mask feet carved and engraved in gold, silver, shakudo and gilt with an eagle amongst pine on rocks beside a waterfall, the feathers finely detailed, the reverse with two red-capped cranes under cherry blossoms beside a stream, with two applied handles inlaid in gold with scrolling vines, the base with scrolling vines and mythical creatures in gilt inlay, the cover with a band of archaic motif of mythical creatures, with a finely detailed finial of a kirin, a ball in its mouth, signed on an inset tablet Uchimono [hammer worker] Kurokawa Eisho, Choko [sculptor] Kamijo Kazutoshi, Zogan [inlay] Kashima Ippu and sealed Sawada Sei

20 in (51 cm) high

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Of the three artists recorded here, Kurokawa Eisho is known to have worked in Tokyo for the Imperial Household and Kashima Hidehiro II, Chujiro or Ippu(sai) (1828-1900) was a pupil of Kashima Mitsuyuki. A master of nunomezogan in particular, a landscape plaque by him is in the collection of the Tokyo National Museum.