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ARITA TOSHIDASHI (20th CENTURY) SHOWA PERIOD, c. 1955
Inlaid bronze vase decorated with dragonflies among grasses in hirazogan of shakodu, shibuichi and enhanced with silver and gold. The base is signed "Toshiaki saku". With its original wooden box inscribed "Seireibun kabin" (Flower vase with dragonfly decoration), signed Arita Toshioki and sealed Toshiaki.
Dim. 22 x 20.5 x 20.5 cm
PROVENANCE: Gregg Baker Gallery, London.
NOTE: The piece was exhibited at the XIth Nitten of the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum in 1955, and published in Nittenshi (History of Nitten), vol. 18, p. 496, pl. 12.
Inlaid bronze vase decorated with dragonflies among grasses in hirazogan of shakodu, shibuichi and enhanced with silver and gold. The base is signed "Toshiaki saku". With its original wooden box inscribed "Seireibun kabin" (Flower vase with dragonfly decoration), signed Arita Toshioki and sealed Toshiaki.
Dim. 22 x 20.5 x 20.5 cm
PROVENANCE: Gregg Baker Gallery, London.
NOTE: The piece was exhibited at the XIth Nitten of the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum in 1955, and published in Nittenshi (History of Nitten), vol. 18, p. 496, pl. 12.