Japanese bronze vase with cranes signed Kowa and Hirotake Meiji period
Japanese bronze vase with cranes signed Kowa and Hirotake Meiji period
Japanese bronze vase with cranes signed Kowa and Hirotake Meiji period
Japanese bronze vase with cranes signed Kowa and Hirotake Meiji period
Japanese bronze vase with cranes signed Kowa and Hirotake Meiji period
Japanese bronze vase with cranes signed Kowa and Hirotake Meiji period
Japanese bronze vase with cranes signed Kowa and Hirotake Meiji period
Japanese bronze vase with cranes signed Kowa and Hirotake Meiji period

Japanese bronze vase with cranes signed Kowa and Hirotake Meiji period

Code: 10156

Dimensions:

W: 11cm (4.3")H: 23.8cm (9.4")Di: 6cm (2.4")

SOLD

Japanese bronze vase finely worked with a pair of cranes in flight and sprays of irises among reeds, inlaid in gold, silver, and copper takazogan (high relief inlay), signed in chiselled characters Kowa 幸和 with kakihan and a seal mark on the base Hirotake 寛雄, Meiji period (1868-1912).

In Japan the crane is an auspicious symbol of long life because of its fabled life span of a thousand years, luck and fidelity as cranes pair for life.

The artist Kowa was active in Kyoto during the Meiji era.

 

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