A small silver bomboniere. Showa period - image-1

Lot 216 Dα

A small silver bomboniere. Showa period

Auction 1190 - overview Cologne
11.12.2021, 11:00 - Asian Art
Estimate: 1.200 € - 1.500 €

A small silver bomboniere. Showa period

In shape of two intersecting rectangular boxes, the bottom one engraved with plum blossom branches, the top one with a gold-plated kiku-mon surrounded by leaves and blossom together forming a lozenge. Stamped: jungin Shinjo. Weight 118 g. Wooden box.
Height 2.3 cm; width 5.3 cm; depth 6.2 cm

The mon belongs to the Princely House of Kuni.

Literature

Compare an identical box, illustrated in: Sensu Tadashi, Imperial Silver Bonbonnières, Tokyo 2009, no. 184