Lacquer Chest
A small black lacquer upright cabinet, enclosing ten drawers within a fall-front door, mounted with well engraved copper fittings. Each drawer front with named in gilt script calligraphy (possibly for a card game)
A Large Pendant
A carnelian agate pearl enclosed with a pierced coiled silver dragon, its eyes inlaid in gold.
Netsuke
Size: the largest is 1½ inches (3 cm) to the smallest ¼ (0.5 cm) An ivory netsuke of a frog crouching on top of a skull; a pair of wood skull ojime; a bone ojime of a skull; and a miniature bone skull ojime.
Bronze Weight
A bronze weight cast as an aggressive crab on a rolled lotus leaf and stalk.
Boxwood Seal
A boxwood seal, carved as an open tree trunk section, with knots and fissures, the exterior inscribed with a poem about literati ideals. Signed and with a red seal. Hachiman Kosho (1866-1932)
Hat Ornament
A silver hat ornament modelled as a blossoming branch, with open and closed buds, the leaves well delineated.
Bronze Seal
A bronze square seal modelled as a crouching Buddhist lion, the animal with roaring head and elevated haunches. The seal translates as Miyamoto Shuho (art literary name Shuho, ‘Red Phoenix’)
Parasol Handle
A cloisonné parasol handle decorated with flowers on a dark ground, the gilt whorls tightly curled.
Wood Pagoda
A gessoed wood three-tiered pagoda with detachable top, the cylindrical lower section with flat base.
Bronze Scroll Weight
A bronze scroll weight, cast with a fruiting gourd and tendrils on a square base.