Width: 30cms
Height: 30cms
Date: Circa 1880
£POA - What does POA mean?
Product Code: KPME150
Artist / Company: Kyoto Oto
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From our collection of Japanese metalwork from the late 19th Century, this attractive Komai-style Damascene dish signed Kyoto Oto and with a main panel depicting a rural scene of a thatched cottage on an island. In the scene, figures are scene at work, crossing bridges, fishing and going about their day. The thatched roof of the cottage, out buildings and a pair of song-birds picked out with onlaid Gold decoration. The dish is edged with six smaller panels depicting gourds, Lotus flowers and other flora and fauna. These sit on an attractive Damascene ground with several different and complex patterns in inlaid Silver.
Offered in very good condition as shown in the photographs and signed to the reverse, Kyoto Oto.
Click on the video below to see a slide-show of photographs of this wonderful piece:
Damascene (Zougan)
Damascening is the art of inlaying different metals into one another, typically gold or silver into a darker oxidised background. The name comes from the resemblance to damask silk embroideries.
Komai
Komai was a workshop in Japan known for their fine damascene work. Before the Meiji period they specialized in decorative sword fittings, after the carrying of swords was outlawed they turned their hand to creating artworks and goods to appeal to the export market.
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