Japanese Gold-damascened iron box attributed to Komai Otojiro…
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Japanese Gold-damascened iron box attributed to Komai Otojiro of Kyoto, Meiji period (1868-1912) of rectangular form, decorated throughout with maple leaves, raised on four bracket feet, the interior gilt-metal engraved with an eagle, the underside with Komai workshop dragonfly seal mark

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  • Attributed - A cataloguing term where the item in the opinion of the cataloguers, is a of the period of the artist, craftsman or designer, and which probably in whole or part is the work of that person.
  • Maple - Maple, native to North America, is a dense heavy timber from light to yellow-brown in colour. It has very little distincive graining unless it is one of the variants such as birds-eye maple or burr maple, so was not used extensively for furniture in 18th and 19th century, where cabinetmakers and designers preferred timbers with more distinctive features such as mahogany, walnut, rosewood and oak.

    Birds-eye maple has a seres of small spots linked by undulating lines in the grain, is highly sough and is used as a decorative veneer. Burr maple has larger and irregular grain swirls than birds-eye maple.

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