拍品 203
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A GOLD TOBACCO POUCH CLASP
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A GOLD TOBACCO POUCH CLASP

THE RAKE SIGNED MITSUHARU; THE PLATE SIGNED MITSUNAGA TO [CARVED BY MITSUNAGA], SHOWA PERIOD (20TH CENTURY)

细节
A GOLD TOBACCO POUCH CLASP
The rake signed Mitsuharu; the plate signed Mitsunaga to [carved by Mitsunaga], Showa period (20th century)
The clasp comprising a backplate carved with a courtier's cap, a staple and a brass fitting modelled as a rake

The box inscribed Shinchu kumade kanagu jisaku [Brass fitting in the form of a rake, made by myself (i.e. Toyokawa Mitsuharu, pupil of Toyokawa Mitsunaga]; ura...gane eboshi ni momiji no zu senshi Toyokawa Mitsunaga-o saku [metal fitting with design of a courtier's cap and maple-leaves made by my master Toyokawa Mitsunaga]; Showa sannen shoto Katsura Mitsuharu shi [Inscribed by Katsura Mitsuharu in October 1928] with two seals
2¼in. (5.5cm.) long
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拍品专文

Born in 1850 the son of a samurai, Toyokawa Mitsunaga resolved to make metalwork his trade when his father resigned his post in 1866. After a period of study with the Yanagawa family, he began to exhibit around 1877, showing a tobacco-box of silver, shakudo and gold at the first Naikoku kangyo hakurankai [National Industrial Exposition] and three boxes at the second exposition in 1881. Like several other metalworkers he met an untimely death, along with members of his family, in the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923.

For another example of his work, signed with his studio name Hakusanshi, see Joe Earle and Goke Tadaomi, Meiji no takara, Treasures of Imperial Japan, Masterpieces by Shibata Zeshin (London, 1996), cat. no. 66.