Panel with a mask of Okina lying on flowers
Details
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Title
Panel with a mask of Okina lying on flowers
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Artist/maker
Yotsuya Seibi (1876 - 1941) (metalworker) -
Associated place
Tōkyō (place of creation) -
Date
c. 1930 -
Material and technique
copper, inlaid with shibuichi, silver, and gold, and with katakiri engraving (oblique chisel-cuts)
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
frame 46 x 27.2 x 2.3 cm (height x width x depth)
panel 30.2 x 15.1 cm (height x width) -
No. of items
1
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Credit line
Purchased with the assistance of the Story Fund, 1997.
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Museum location
Museum department
Eastern Art
Accession no.
EA1997.193
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Catalogue text
Copper panel inlaid and carved with a mask of Okina lying on a spray of chrysanthemums and daisies. Engraved signature: Yotsuya Seibi with gold inlaid seal.
The silver has been cut here to shine, brilliant cutting, and is preserved with its original lack of patina by the fact that it is glazed and hence free from the tarnish due to oxidation. The maker is little known, but clearly was a pupil to one of the great masters, possibly Unno Shōmin at Tōkyō Art School. Although technically too late for our period, it is illustrated here as an example of the continuation of Meiji craftsmanship well into Taishō period.
The frame and mounts are original.In: Impey, Oliver, and Joyce Seaman, Japanese Decorative Arts of the Meiji Period 1868-1912, Ashmolean Handbooks (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2005)
Glossary of terms
shibuichi
Further reading
Impey, Oliver, and Joyce Seaman, Japanese Decorative Arts of the Meiji Period 1868-1912, Ashmolean Handbooks (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2005), no. 30 on p. 64, illus. pp. 64-65
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