Q176. Shakudo Gumbai Menuki with Kanzan Hakogaki

$995.00

Q176. Menuki depicting war fans.  They are 3.8 and 4 cm in length.  Jet black shakudo with the tiniest of detailing in gold (barely visible without magnification).  I asked Markus Sesko to translate the hakogaki:

Gunsen menuki (軍扇⽬貫) – Menuki depicting war fans

⾚銅地容彫
⾦⾊絵⼊
無銘古代⽬貫
優品珍重
昭和壬寅春
寒⼭
Shakudō-ji, katachibori
Kin-iroe hairi
Mumei kodai menuki
Yūhin chinchō
Shōwa mizunoe-tora haru
Kanzan
Shakudō ground, in katachibori
With gold iroe accents
Unsigned early menuki
Rare and valuable masterwork
Spring in the year of the tiger of the Shōwa era (1962)
Kanzan

These come in a fitted box and are in pristine condition.  $995.

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