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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
May 12, 2016 | Bonhams | London | Fine Japanese Art | 492 | $****** - ****** | Three Tetsubin (iron kettles) and covers |
sculpture
iron
The first of squat globular section, the body textured and cast with lotus flowers growing in a pond, the bronze handle suspended from two ring handles in the form of the heads of mythological creatures, similarly cast with a crab crawling over lotus stalks, the side of the kettle signed in a rectangular reserve Kibundo and stamped on the base with an indecipherable seal, the inside of the mottled cover signed in chiselled cursive characters Ryubundo; the second kettle of cylindrical form, cast in low relief with a Chinese scholar holding a fan and cooling off at the foot of a waterfall, the reverse carved with a five-line Chinese poem in low relief, the lid engraved with a sparrow flying among sprays of chrysanthemum and signed on the inside in chiselled cursive characters Ryubundo; the third kettle in the form of a treasure sack tied at the neck with a tasselled rope, the body cast with fragmented rinzu (textile-weave) patterns, with a fitted iron cover simiarly decorated and surmounted by a finial in the form of an elaborately tied key, the side of the kettle signed with seal Ueda zo,(6)
