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Kogai: Mumei(Unsigned) Horse and Gourd

2017/03/13

Kogai:
Mei (signature) : Mumei(Unsigned)

Length : 22.1cm x 1.32cm ( 8.7inches x 0.52inches)
Jidai(era) :Edo Period

Special feature:On shakudo nanakoji plate a horse coming out of the gourd is engraved and inlayed with gold. There is a Japanese idiom used when something unexpected occured. It is often sayed “horse coming out from gourd.”This piece is interesting in that it is literary express a horses getting out of the gourd.

AOI estimation paper
In Kiri box.

Price : 70,000 JPY-

-Kogai