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Subject:Help identify this find
Posted By: Marco Fri, Aug 10, 2018 IP: 2600:1:d221:c829:314 I obtained this woman’s box at an estate sale and find the level of detail and age appearance to be genuine. It is approx 6” long by 2.5” wide and 2” tall. Heavy bronze or brass with some type of black stone inlay. The inlay has a oriental woman on top which appears to be holding a five finger baby dragon. There is gold leaf(?)coloring decorating her wardrobe and hair combs. The detail in her dress is not visible without a loupe but appears to be floral made with mini dots. The two long sides of box are detailed beautifully with leafs and three circle with image inside as well as the top and bottom each with one. The stamp on the bottom is a very old version of Chinese. My girl friend is Chinese and to her best can only guess the first word to be Shī(family name?) and the second being “horse”. These are only guesses. We found the second(left side) word on line. Of course in Chinese the two symbols ctogether can take on a different meaning all in all |
Subject:Re: Help identify this find
Posted By: I.Nagy Sat, Aug 11, 2018 The box is definitely Japanese, |
Subject:Re: Help identify this find
Posted By: Marco Sun, Aug 12, 2018 Thank you very much for your help. Thank you. |
Subject:Re: Help identify this find
Posted By: Mark Sat, Aug 11, 2018 Additional images. |
Subject:Re: Help identify this find
Posted By: Marco Sat, Aug 11, 2018 Well I seem to have narrowed it to the Komai Otojiro family mark. But in all my research I can not find any piece similar, as in, with a woman's carving on the lid. Is it possible that this was a family members private piece? Would this be normal not to find a simular item? The actual art work is very consistant with the company |
Subject:Re: Help identify this find
Posted By: I.Nagy Sun, Aug 12, 2018 Thank you for the further research, |
Subject:Re: Help identify this find
Posted By: Marco Mon, Aug 13, 2018 Thank you again for your attention. |
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