LOT 1629 RYUBUNDO: A SILVER INLAID BRONZE \'BATS\' YATATE, EDO
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Description RYUBUNDO: A SILVER INLAID BRONZE 'BATS' YATATE, EDOBy the Ryubundo workshop, signed Ryubundo zo 龍文堂造Japan, 19h century, Edo Period (1615-1868). The yatate comprising a fudezutsu (brush holder), brush, and sumitsubo (inkwell), incised and inlaid in silver depicting bats and reeds, inscribed to the hinged lid and the reverse of the fudezutsu with RYUBUNDO zo.Condition: Very good condition, minor wear, and casting flaws. Provenance: The Strong National Museum of Play, accession number 78.1494 (lacquered to the base of the inkwell). Margaret Woodbury Strong (1897-1969) grew up in a prosperous family of collectors. Her interests ranged so widely that by 1960 she had amassed more than 27,000 collectible items and works of art. The vast majority of her collections related in some way to play and as her accumulation grew, Margaret planned a museum to house her collection. It eventually opened to the public in 1982, and grew dramatically over the following decades, expanding its collections, facilities, and resources, now spanning over 285,000 square feet. Today, the Strong National Museum of Play (known as just The Strong Museum or simply The Strong) is the only collections-based museum in the world devoted solely to the study of play.Weight: 142 gDimensions: Length 18.9 cmFounded by Shikata Yasunosuke (1786-1841) who took the name Ryubundo when he moved from Tamba Province to Kyoto, the consecutive eight generations of Ryubundo cover nearly a century and continued to make iron kettles from the end of the Edo Period to the 33rd year of Showa (1958). The company was famous for their high-quality tetsubin during the Meiji to the Taisho period.
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