Nobaru Nogawa
A pair of inlaid bronze vases each of baluster form, finely worked in gold, silver, copper, shakudo and shibuichi with rural views including brides over lakes, shrines, and a moonlit view towards mount fuji, the reverse with a pheasant beneath flowering cherry and egrets beneath maple, the shoulder with stylised ho-o and scrolling foliage.
Signed with the Nogawa seal
Meiji Period, Circa 1890
£18,000
From Mr. Straub in Minneapolis, MN. He collected these items through auctions at Sotheby's and Christie's in the early 1980s
