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A JAPANESE WOOD SIGN BOARD, KOSATSU EDO PERIOD, DATED 1685 Of rectangular shape with a shallow-pitched roof, the wood left bare but for a long inscription in ink prohibiting the practice of Christianity and announcing rewards for the capture of Christians of various stature, with a signature for the Governor, Bugyo, and dated Jokyo ninen juichigatsu (November 1685), 47.3cm x 85.5cm. See the British Museum, acc. n.1895,0721.1 for another notice board relating to the prohibition of Christianity dated 1682. Christianity was banned in the 1630s and these edict boards were visible all over Japan thereafter. Few of these survive, however, due to centuries of rain and wind damaging the wood. Christianity first appeared in Japan in the 16th century with the arrival of Navarrese missionary Francis Xavier (1506-1552). It quickly reached the higher strata of society, with Daimyo families such as the Satsuma clan joining the faith, partly to have access to imported goods (such as guns) Portuguese Jesuits were trading in. Christianity was fully banned from Japan by Tokugawa after the Shimabara rebellion of 1637-38 during which Christian peasants rebelled against the Shogunate. Other factors led to the ban, including the possible involvement of Portuguese Jesuits and suspicions that converts were spies for foreign powers. The edict outlawed the promulgation of and adherence to the religion. It also marked the beginning of a long period of anti-Christian persecutions that lasted for two and a half centuries. Sign boards such as lot 266 where set up all over the country, encouraging people to report Christians to the authorities for various financial rewards (500 pieces of silver for a priest, or 100 for an ordinary convert). Symbols and objects used for Christian worship were destroyed or desecrated. Lot 268 is an example of this iconoclasm, with the inscriptions to the sides of the incense burner erased to hide its original use. Christian practitioners who refused to renege their faith had to go into hiding and worship in secret. Figures of Kannon, the Buddhist Goddess of Mercy, and of Amida Buddha (lot 267) were adapted to resemble Christian iconography and become the central point of focus of hidden altars. Crosses and figures of Christ (lot 269) were hidden in ordinary objects such as this fake smoking pipe. After the Meiji restoration and the re-establishment of religious freedom, more than 30,000 secret Christians came out of hiding in the 1870s.
A JAPANESE BRONZE CROSS WITH AMIDA NYORAI (AMIDA BUDDHA) EDO PERIOD OR LATER, 18TH CENTURY OR LATER The central figure seated on a lotus throne, his hands clasped together in a gesture of prayer, a circular mandorla behind him with fleur de lys-shaped ornaments, the cross with four quatrelobed apertures to the ends, 25.3cm. See The Asian Civilisations Museum, Singapore, access. n. 2011-02283 for another example of Edo period cross with a central figure of Amida Nyorai. Also J Welsh, After the Barbarians II, Namban Works of Art for the Japanese, Portuguese and Dutch Markets, pp.278-281 n.34, where a comparable bronze cross is illustrated and discussed. Christianity first appeared in Japan in the 16th century with the arrival of Navarrese missionary Francis Xavier (1506-1552). It quickly reached the higher strata of society, with Daimyo families such as the Satsuma clan joining the faith, partly to have access to imported goods (such as guns) Portuguese Jesuits were trading in. Christianity was fully banned from Japan by Tokugawa after the Shimabara rebellion of 1637-38 during which Christian peasants rebelled against the Shogunate. Other factors led to the ban, including the possible involvement of Portuguese Jesuits and suspicions that converts were spies for foreign powers. The edict outlawed the promulgation of and adherence to the religion. It also marked the beginning of a long period of anti-Christian persecutions that lasted for two and a half centuries. Sign boards such as lot 266 where set up all over the country, encouraging people to report Christians to the authorities for various financial rewards (500 pieces of silver for a priest, or 100 for an ordinary convert). Symbols and objects used for Christian worship were destroyed or desecrated. Lot 268 is an example of this iconoclasm, with the inscriptions to the sides of the incense burner erased to hide its original use. Christian practitioners who refused to renege their faith had to go into hiding and worship in secret. Figures of Kannon, the Buddhist Goddess of Mercy, and of Amida Buddha (lot 267) were adapted to resemble Christian iconography and become the central point of focus of hidden altars. Crosses and figures of Christ (lot 269) were hidden in ordinary objects such as this fake smoking pipe. After the Meiji restoration and the re-establishment of religious freedom, more than 30,000 secret Christians came out of hiding in the 1870s.
A RARE JAPANESE CHRISTIAN PIPE, KISERU EDO PERIOD, 18TH CENTURY The body in paulownia wood with removable gilt mounts, the stem in two halves opening to reveal the hidden depiction of Christ on the cross, together with a tomobako wood box, 15.7cm. (4) Christianity first appeared in Japan in the 16th century with the arrival of Navarrese missionary Francis Xavier (1506-1552). It quickly reached the higher strata of society, with Daimyo families such as the Satsuma clan joining the faith, partly to have access to imported goods (such as guns) Portuguese Jesuits were trading in. Christianity was fully banned from Japan by Tokugawa after the Shimabara rebellion of 1637-38 during which Christian peasants rebelled against the Shogunate. Other factors led to the ban, including the possible involvement of Portuguese Jesuits and suspicions that converts were spies for foreign powers. The edict outlawed the promulgation of and adherence to the religion. It also marked the beginning of a long period of anti-Christian persecutions that lasted for two and a half centuries. Sign boards such as lot 266 where set up all over the country, encouraging people to report Christians to the authorities for various financial rewards (500 pieces of silver for a priest, or 100 for an ordinary convert). Symbols and objects used for Christian worship were destroyed or desecrated. Lot 268 is an example of this iconoclasm, with the inscriptions to the sides of the incense burner erased to hide its original use. Christian practitioners who refused to renege their faith had to go into hiding and worship in secret. Figures of Kannon, the Buddhist Goddess of Mercy, and of Amida Buddha (lot 267) were adapted to resemble Christian iconography and become the central point of focus of hidden altars. Crosses and figures of Christ (lot 269) were hidden in ordinary objects such as this fake smoking pipe. After the Meiji restoration and the re-establishment of religious freedom, more than 30,000 secret Christians came out of hiding in the 1870s.
A JAPANESE LACQUER DOCUMENT BOX AND COVER, RYOSHIBAKO EDO PERIOD OR LATER, 19TH CENTURY Of rectangular form, decorated in hiramaki-e, nashiji and gold and silver takamaki-e, the lid with two beauties playing hanetsuki (Japanese battledore) and with pine, bamboo and flowering prunus around them, Mount Fuji and a village of thatched buildings visible in the background, the reverse with two carps in a stream, the sides of the box with a band of key fret and scrolling tendrils, together with an inner tray, kakego, 14cm x 26.5cm x 35cm. (3)
A JAPANESE INLAID BRONZE VASE BY THE KANAZAWA COMPANY MEIJI PERIOD, 19TH CENTURY The baluster-shaped body inlaid in gold, silver and copper, with two large panels enclosing a quail under sprays of millet to one side and flowering hydrangeas to the other, with bands of formal designs to the rims and the shoulder with two large lion-head handles with loose rings, the base signed Dai Nihon Kanazawa Doki Kaisha Sei (Made by the Kanazawa bronze Company), 42.5cm.
A JAPANESE SILVER AND LACQUER TABLE CABINET, KODANSU MEIJI PERIOD OR LATER, 19TH OR 20TH CENTURY Of rectangular shape with a lobbed handle to the top, the surface decorated with patterns of chidori (plovers) swimming on a stream, with petals of sakura flowers amongst the scrolling waves, a hinged door to the front revealing a black lacquer interior with three pull-out drawers, marked underneath with a swallow in flight for the factory of Hattori Kintaro (1860-1934), in a tomobako wooden box with a paper label for 'K.Hattori & Co, Ginza Tokyo', 11.8cm x 10.2cm x 13.4cm. (2)
A JAPANESE THREE-PIECE SILVER TEA SET MEIJI PERIOD OR LATER, 19TH OR 20TH CENTURY Comprising: a teapot and cover, the spout in the shape of a phoenix head; a sugar bowl and cover, the handles modelled as leaves, and a milk jug, the handle formed as a writhing dragon; all three decorated with a dense pattern of chrysanthemum flowerheads, all with the same two character signature for Konoike of Yokohama, 18.5cm max. (5)
A JAPANESE SILVER BOWL SHAPED AS A PRUNUS FLOWER, SAKURA MEIJI PERIOD OR LATER, 19TH OR 20TH CENTURY With five lobbed petals and raised on a short foot, the well left undecorated and the exterior with a hammered surface, the base with a three character signature for Kiyoharu tsukuru and stamped Japan and jungin (pure silver), 21.5cm dia.
A JAPANESE SILVER AND ENAMEL BOWL MEIJI PERIOD OR LATER, 19TH OR 20TH CENTURY With a glass liner, the sides densely decorated with butterflies fluttering above brushwood fences and a multitude of flowers including irises, wisteria, peonies and chrysanthemum, with details finely worked in repouss? and polychrome enamels, the well with a spray of peonies, the base signed Masamitsu, 12.1cm.
An Antique Period Collection of High Quality Hollow Ground Straight Razors ( 5 ) In Total. All In Excellent Condition. Comprises 1/ 'Gong ' Wald Solingen 1918 Bakelite Handle Hollow Ground Straight Razor. 2/ Best Dual Silver Steel Hollow Ground Razor - Bakelite Handle. 3/ Kropp Sheffield Hollow Ground Razor - Best Quality Bakelite Handle. 4/ Ator ERN GM 142302 Hollow Ground Steel Razor, Bakelite Handle. 5/ Big Ben T. Glossop Sheffield Hollow Ground Straight Razor. All Razors In Excellent Condition.
Peridot Art Nouveau Style Drop Earrings, each earring having four pear cut and one round cut peridot, an overall total of 4.75cts, set in a sinuously curving Art Nouveau style mount of gold vermeil and silver with post and push back fitting; each 1.5inches (3.8cms) long
A silver Movado chronometer Ermeto CONDITION REPORT: The watch does not wind and is not currently running. The time can be adjusted when the crown is pulled. The crown appears to be the only winding mechanism. One side of the external silver case can be removed but the other side is much more securely attached and I do not wish to force it. The silvered dial has typical flecks of dirt and wear to the Arabic numerals. The case is stamped 925 in numerous places and also marked Fab Suisse.
FOOTBALL, signed photos, inc. silver gelatin fibre photo (2), Steve Perryman & Gary Lineker (in action during 1982 FA Cup Semi-Final, Tottenham v Leicester City), David Fairclough; seven Arsenal, Radford, Wilson, McLintock, MacNab, Storey, Simpson (celebrating on open-top bus), postcard by Gordon Banks (full-length making save), 20 x 16 and smaller, EX, 4
EPHEMERA, selection, inc. postcards, royalty, portraits, architecture, topographical, birds, silver jubilee, cartoons, ships, advertising, celebrities, flowers, motor vehicles, military, trains; prints (8), Long-Eared Owl, Osprey, Hobby, Blue Titmouse; tourist booklet (German), Ladybird books (2), Gas, Water Supply etc., G to EX, Qty.
MIXED, selection, inc. complete, Ogdens Modern Railway, Players Arms & Armour; Wills large (4), Old Sundials, Old Silver, English Period Costumes, Arms of Universities; part sets, Phillips Model Railway (22), Churchmans medium, Anstie, Carreras etc., duplication, G to EX, 1500*
FOOTBALL, selection from 1983 England Tour to Australia, inc. programme (covering matches in Sydney, Brisbane & Melbourne); booklets, The Socceroos and Their Opponents, Media Guide, St George Budapest FC Silver Jubilee etc., also programme, England B v Australia in Birmingham (1980), VG to EX, 7
FOOTBALL, selection, inc. 1905 Northumberland FA silver fob medallion, Junior Cup runners-up (awarded to THC); circular brass plaque for the 1977 FIFA Youth World Cup held in Tunis, crude inscription for first tournament, from the collection of Rene Couete (Brazilian FA Official), 6" dia., G to VG, 2
FOOTBALL, signed photos, inc. Frank McLintock (full-length naked in shower with another player), Steve Perryman (with FA Cup for Spurs after 1982 replay), Dennis Wise (exchanging pennants with Roy Keane prior to 1997 Charity Shield), David Webb & Ron Harris (silver gelatin), EX, 4
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