Five soft-metal fuchi


Edo period (1615-1868), 19th centuryThe first of shibuichi, with a garden lantern by a pine tree in relief, signed Hamano Yasuyuki; the second of shakudo nanako, inlaid with a family of five chickens, signed Shokatei Motohiro with a kao; the third of shibuichi, inlaid with demons transporting a bell in water, signed Kikugawa Nanpo kocho with a seal; the fourth of shakudo nanako, with demons among clouds, signed Nomura Masamitsu with a kao; the fifth of shibuichi with reeds on a stream, signed Sekienshi Tsuchiya Yasuchika; with three inscribed wood storage boxes. (8).
|ProvenanceThe third: H. Seymour Trower Collection.Lundgren Collection, nos.222, 107, 263, 243, and 257, respectively.Purchased at Christie's London, 18 November 1997, lot 150 (partial lot).PublishedThe third: Henri L. Joly, Catalogue of the H. Seymour Trower Collection of Japanese Art, London, Glendining and Co. Ltd., 1913, pl.XXXII, no.1695.