FAN SHAPED COPPER PANEL WITH WASP AND GRAPES BY SEKIGUCHI ICHIYA
Circa 1900
71 x 33.5 cm
28 x 13 ¼ in
A fan-shaped copper panel decorated in two shades of gold inlay and katakiribori with a wasp and fruiting grapes. Set in a wood mount and framed. With tomobako.
Signed nanaju-kyu o Jitokusai Ichiya koku with kakihan (carved by Jitokusai Ichiya at the age of seventy-nine with kakihan. (Sekiguchi Ichiya 1850 - 1933)
Tomobako inscribed budo no zu katakiribori suaka senmen-kata no gaku (a copper panel in the form of a fan with grapes in katakiribori), nanaju-kyu so Jitokusai Sekiguchi Ichiya with seal (Jitokusai Sekiguchi Ichiya at the age of seventy-nine).
Sekiguchi Ichiya was born in 1850 in Tokyo. He started metalwork in 1864 at the age of fifteen with the teachers Goto Korai and Goto Ichijo and was given the artist name Ichiya around 1870. He was a member of the Nihon Bijutsu Kyokai (Japanese Art Association) and the Tokyo Chokokai (Tokyo Association of Carvers and Sculptors). His son Sekiguchi Shinya was also an excellent metalwork artist and they worked jointly together.
葡萄之図素銅扇面形額 銘 自得斎一也(関口一也)