An inlaid bronze cylindrical brushpot


By the Nogawa Company, Meiji era (1868-1912), early 20th centurySupported on three bronze bracket feet, decorated in gilt, silver, bronze and shibuichi flat inlay with a wide central band encircling the body enclosing butterflies hovering among spring plants and leaves on a shakudo ground, the top with shippo-hanabishi (flowery-diamond linked-jewels), the bottom with a band of interlocking rectangles, reserved on a bronze ground; signed on the base with the silver flat-inlaid mark of the Nogawa Company. 9.5cm (3¾in) high.
|For a related example by Jomi Eisuke, another Kyoto company, see Bonhams, Image and Ornament: A Special Exhibition of Masterpieces of Metalwork from a Private Collection, exhibition catalogue, New York, 9-17 March 2017, cat. no.21.