Lot description

Details

A Fine Iron Komai Box and Cover
Signed Kyoto Komai Shinrakudo sei, Meiji period (late 19th century)
In the form of Hotei’s treasure sack, decorated in gold and silver takazogan and nunomezogan, the cover depicting a karako [Chinese child], his face well delineated, resting in a sack and holding a fan which forms the finial, Hotei’s sack decorated with various brocade designs including flowers, grape vine, waves and geometric patterns and tied with long tassels hanging down
9cm. wide

Provenance

Eskenazi Ltd., London

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Quoted from the lot page, © Christie's. Christie's, The Joseph Collection of Japanese Art, 2015-11-11, lot 1 ↗