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80,000 hopes of a 10½x 9½in (26 x 24cm) suzuribako or writing box in their May 17 mixed-owner sale. It was decorated with symbols
associated with the Five Season Festivals and was part of a 15-lot section of works by Zeshin and his School, which the auctioneers had guided at £60,000- 80,000. However, the market didn’t rate this
piece in the same way as the Wrangham inros and it failed to sell. This section also featured a three-case
cylindrical Zeshin inro lacquered with coloured blossoms and contained in a similar-shaped sheath lacquered in gold relief to resemble netting. This got away at the low end of a £65,000-70,000 estimate. Meiji metalwares, especially good
enamels, have an international following and have held up more strongly than some other sectors of the Japanese market. This is an area where Japanese have increased their buying for top- quality pieces by good makers. The top price in this mixed-owner
auction was paid for a piece of the Meiji enamellers’ art. A 7½in (19cm) square footed bowl by Ando Jubei distinguished
A pair of Kakiemon models of tigers sold for £140,000 at Christie’s South Kensington.
Left: a Meiji cloisonné enamel vessel modelled on a temple bell sold for £180,000 at Christie’s.
by its plique à jour sides worked with irises and a single carp to the interior, it generated enough excitement to take a fi nal price of £120,000, around seven times the £15,000-20,000 estimate. CSK’s Masterful Exuberance sale saw
eight of the ten highest prices paid for Meiji metalwares. The collection’s highest estimated lot was an elaborate, late 19th century, highly intricate, 13¾in (35cm) high, cloisonné enamel-covered vessel fashioned in the form of a temple bell on
a wood stand, which the auctioneers had attributed to the workshop of Namikawa Yasyuki. This piece just got away at the low
end of its hefty £180,000-250,000 guide, selling to a European private collector. Matching it in price and making over
three times the estimate was a large piece of late 19th century cloisonné, a 2ft (60cm) high, octagonal vase decorated with an eagle standing with outspread wings on a maple tree. This had the mark
of the Hakayshi Chuzo workshop and was bought by an Asian private buyer. Kakiemon porcelain, once the headline
maker in so many Japanese auctions in 1980s and ’90s, had its moment in the sun when a pair of late-17th century tigers topped the mixed-owner Japanese sale held at CSK on May 16. The 10in (25cm) high felines, seated on tree stumps and bearing fearsome grins, were formerly in a European collection and sold for a mid-estimate £140,000.
ASIAN ART Thursday 15th November 2012
Wednesday 14th and
We are now inviting entries for our November auctions.
A Chinese Yixing teapot and cover, 19th century, 14.7cm Sold for £73,200
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