£2,400
HAYASHI KODENJI, A FINE CLOISONNÃ ENAMEL ROUNDED RECTANGULAR BOX AND COVER
Meiji (1868-1912) or Taisho (1912-1926) era, late 19th/ early 20th century, delicately worked in thick sculpted and tapered gold and silver wire, the cover decorated with a cargo boat containing bales of rice moored among windswept grasses, in front of a smaller boat, a snow-capped Mount Fuji looming in the background reserved on a graduated blue ground, the sides of the cover and box with a band of repeated lappets enclosing foliate motifs, the underside signed in silver wire with the lozenge-shaped seal mark of the Hayashi Kodenji Company. 4.5cm high, 10.5cm long, 8.5cm wide
No losses or damage. The usual surface marks to the base. In generally very good condition.
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