Lot 115: A BRONZE VASE BY TAKAMURA TOYOCHIKA (1890-1974)

Signed Toyochika, Showa Period (1950s-1960s) The pale brown patination with a further partial layer of pale green patination imitating archaic Chinese bronze, cast in two pieces with a bowl-shaped lower part and a dome-shaped upper part meeting to form a crisp shoulder-line, the lower part plain, the upper part cast with four equally spaced tsubomi, the rim of the mouth angled downwards, the recessed base with a cast mark Toyochika, with fitted wood box bearing the signature and seal of Takamura Toyochika 7 7/8 x 12 3/8in. (20 x 31.5cm.).