Tsukimi Gallery Tsukimi Gallery Japanese arts and crafts

Hannya Kankei

An exceptional bronze bottle vase covered with a dark brown patina, inlaid with silver and gold geometric patterns, the gold surface finely chiselled. With original inscribed tomobako.

(Exceptionnel vase en bronze, incrusté d'un décor géométrique en argent et en or, les surface en or finement ciselée)

Signed Kankei in silver seal on the base

Showa period, circa 1985

Height 20.6 cm, Diameter 13.1 cm

Price 2,500 euros

Hannya Kankei is a regular member of the Japan Kogei Association. Born in 1933 in Takaoka, he is the fourth generation of Hannya family foundry, manufacturing high-quality copperware since 1870. After he joined the family workshop in 1950, he started to exhibit his work from 1969 at the Japan Kogei Exhibition where we won the first prize in 1973 and was awarded multiple times between 1971 and 1985 at the Traditionnal Crafts Japan Exhibition. In 2001 and 2005, at the request of the Imperial Household Agency, he made replicas of some ancient metalworks from the Shosoin, the treasure house of the Todai-ji Temple in Nara.