313 TWO JAPANESE CAST-IRON KETTLES AND COVERS, TETSUBIN MEIJI PERIOD OR LATER, 19TH OR 20TH CENTURY One with a rough ishime (stone texture) surface decorated with a dragon emerging from clouds, its curling tail visible on the reverse, the other with a pattern of raised dots, arare, and a seal mark underneath the spout, both lids with finials shaped as flower buds, together with an iron dish shaped as a large lotus leaf, signed Nobumitsu saku, in a fitted tomobako wooden box, 30cm max. (6)
£400-600 Provenance: from the collection of Mr Richard Nathanson (d.2018), London. The tetsubin with a dragon purchased from Peter Sloane, London, on 3rd February 2016; the iron dish from Grace Tsumugi, London, on 8th February 2011. Copies of the original invoices are available.
314 A JAPANESE BRONZE GROUP, OKIMONO MEIJI PERIOD, 19TH/20TH CENTURY Realistically cast as an elderly man carrying a small laughing child on his shoulders, the base with a rectangular cartouche signed Seiya saku, 28.5cm.
£300-500 Provenance: an English private collection, Dorset.
315 A JAPANESE IMARI TEAPOT AND COVER MEIJI PERIOD, 19TH/20TH CENTURY With a rectangular-section body and a tall loop handle, the lid shaped as a chrysanthemum flower, the sides with panels of further blossoms and formal designs, the character for ‘longevity’ painted to the back and shoulder; together with a pair of bronze crouching shishi, marked Shuzan / Hideyama, 15.3cm max. (4)
£500-700 Provenance: from the collection of Dr Geraldine Kenney-Wallace, RSC, FINSTP and the late Professor Stephen Charles Wallace, FINSTP.
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