Lot 114: A BRONZE FLOWER-VASE BY TAKAMURA TOYOCHIKA (1890-1974)

Signed Toyochika, Showa Period (1950s-1960s) The dark brown patination with passages of dark red, pale yellow and pale brown, the globular form narrowing to the mouth, the rim angled downwards, the recessed base with a cast mark Toyochika, with fitted wood box bearing the signature and seal of Takamura Toyochika 7 3/8x 9 1/16in. (18.8 x 23cm.) NOTES For another example of this style of patination, much favoured by Takamura, see Tokyo Kokuritsu Kindai Bijutsukan Kogeikan [Crafts Gallery, National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo], Gendai Nihon kogei no shusaku [Masterpieces of Contemporary Japanese Crafts] (Tokyo, 1978), cat. no. 106.