Iron plate with excellant patina of mokkogata shape with sukinokoshi mimi. Fine kiku (chrysanthemum) design occuring on both sides. Both hitsu-ana's covered with copper.

It is observable that during the Edo period certain artists showed a desposition to make a specialty of particular fields of design. Kikugawa Muneyoshi (1790), of Edo, commonly called CHOBEI (H 00320.0), carved chrysanthemums so admirably that Chobei-kiku came to be a synonym for exceptionally fine work of this class.

7.90cm tall X 7.20cm width.

PROVENANCE:    Elliott D. Long

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