A small silver bomboniere. Dateable to 1935 - image-1

Lot 214 Dα

A small silver bomboniere. Dateable to 1935

Auction 1190 - overview Cologne
11.12.2021, 11:00 - Asian Art
Estimate: 1.000 € - 1.500 €
Result: 1.250 € (incl. premium)

A small silver bomboniere. Dateable to 1935

In shape of a lobed mirror with a plum blossom branch, clouds and a gold- plated kiku-mon in relief on ishime ground, at the center a magatama. Weight 54 g. Wooden box.
Height 1.2 cm; diameter 5.1 cm

Given as a present on the occasion of the wedding of Nagahisa-ô of the Princely House of Kitashirakawa on 26.4.1935. The kiku-mon of the Kitashirakawa shows at the centre two small chrysanthemum flowers.

Literature

Compare an identical box, illustrated in: Sensu Tadashi, Imperial Silver Bonbonnières, Tokyo 2009, no. 171; Nagasako Minako, Bonbonieru to kindaiteishitsu bunka, Enishi 2015, no. 129