Takahashi Kaishu (1905-2004)
Bronze incense burner inlaid in silver, decorated with intertwined circles, a stylized bird sitting on top of the pierced cover.
Brûle encens en bronze patiné, décoré de cercles entrelacés, le couvercle percé surmonté d’un oiseau stylisé.
Signed Shu on the base
Showa era, circa 1980
H. 15.5 cm, Diam. 11.2 cm
1800€
Artworks by the artist in the collection of the Ishikawa Prefectural Museum
Born in Kanasawa, Ishikawa prefecture, Takashi Kaishu graduated from Tokyo Art School of Fine Art and trained under the Living National Treasure Unno Kiyoshi. After his first participation to the Teiten, he was awarded at the Belgium World Exhibition (1930) and at the Chicago International Exposition (1933). After the War, he exhibited multiples times at the Nitten where he became later a council member and then an advisor. He served as the director of Ishikawa Prefectural Museum of Art and founded in 1976 the Kaga Metalworkers Association. Among his students, he took as an apprentice Nagawa Mamoru who later became Living National Treasure. In 1982, he was designated Important Intangible Cultural Asset of Ishikawa Prefecture for his Kaga Zogan (metal inlay) technique.