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Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 97

A rare Japanese Komai inlaid-iron clock

Auction 13.10.1998
13.10.1998
Schätzpreis
80.000 £ - 120.000 £
ca. 135.541 $ - 203.312 $
Zuschlagspreis:
92.256 £
ca. 156.306 $
Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 97

A rare Japanese Komai inlaid-iron clock

Auction 13.10.1998
13.10.1998
Schätzpreis
80.000 £ - 120.000 £
ca. 135.541 $ - 203.312 $
Zuschlagspreis:
92.256 £
ca. 156.306 $
Beschreibung:

A rare Japanese Komai inlaid-iron clock Late Meiji period (1868-1912), signed Kyoto no ju Komai gensei , the clock movement French Modelled as a pagoda-shaped shrine, the outswept stepped roof divided in two sections revealing a deep inner well when dismantling the top, the central compartment reached by two hinged double-doors, resting on a balustraded platform above a drawer, the lower part with two hinged doors mounted with a wavy latch handle, opening to the removable clock, supported on a stepped plinth base on shaped corner feet; all richly decorated in iroe (gold, silver and copper) hirazogan (flat inlay), takazogan (inlay in relief) and nunomezogan (fine damascene work), the roof showing a scaly writhing dragon among turbulent cloud scrolls on a wave- and kiku (chrysanthemum)-pattern ground, surmounted at the top by a stupa finial flanked at the corners by a carp, the doors, sides and inner central compartment predominantly decorated with various silver-rimmed cuspate panels of pavilions in river landscapes, ho-o (phoenix) in flight, dragons, bamboo and foliage, a karashishi (lion) mask reserved on scrolling peony above the lower compartment, the back of the interior with a geometrical section depicting a fisherman in a boat pulling in a net near modest dwellings, set off against borders of fruiting vine, the key-fret pattern around the plinth repeated on the border of the rectangular dial, the chapter ring enriched with fruiting vine, two keys, the French movement with count wheel strike, striking every half an hour on a bell, platform escapement 45cm. high

Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 97
Auktion:
Datum:
13.10.1998
Auktionshaus:
Christie's
Amsterdam
Beschreibung:

A rare Japanese Komai inlaid-iron clock Late Meiji period (1868-1912), signed Kyoto no ju Komai gensei , the clock movement French Modelled as a pagoda-shaped shrine, the outswept stepped roof divided in two sections revealing a deep inner well when dismantling the top, the central compartment reached by two hinged double-doors, resting on a balustraded platform above a drawer, the lower part with two hinged doors mounted with a wavy latch handle, opening to the removable clock, supported on a stepped plinth base on shaped corner feet; all richly decorated in iroe (gold, silver and copper) hirazogan (flat inlay), takazogan (inlay in relief) and nunomezogan (fine damascene work), the roof showing a scaly writhing dragon among turbulent cloud scrolls on a wave- and kiku (chrysanthemum)-pattern ground, surmounted at the top by a stupa finial flanked at the corners by a carp, the doors, sides and inner central compartment predominantly decorated with various silver-rimmed cuspate panels of pavilions in river landscapes, ho-o (phoenix) in flight, dragons, bamboo and foliage, a karashishi (lion) mask reserved on scrolling peony above the lower compartment, the back of the interior with a geometrical section depicting a fisherman in a boat pulling in a net near modest dwellings, set off against borders of fruiting vine, the key-fret pattern around the plinth repeated on the border of the rectangular dial, the chapter ring enriched with fruiting vine, two keys, the French movement with count wheel strike, striking every half an hour on a bell, platform escapement 45cm. high

Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 97
Auktion:
Datum:
13.10.1998
Auktionshaus:
Christie's
Amsterdam
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