A GROUP OF FIVE KŌGŌ (INCENSE CONTAINERS) Taisho (1912-1926) or Showa (1926-1989) era,...

A GROUP OF FIVE KŌGŌ (INCENSE CONTAINERS) Taisho (1912-1926) or Showa (1926-1989) era, 20th century Comprising a shallow, circular black-lacquer box with a sightly domed, flush-fitting lid decorated with a poem in inlaid shell; A rectangular black-lacquer box decorated with floral lozenges in inlaid shell, signed Chōtei; A circular wood box with a flush-fitting lid decorated with a bird in flight above cryptomeria branches and a falling maple leaf in gold and silver takamaki-e, the interior with a parade of ants on an anthill in black and red takamaki-e, hiramaki-e, and kinpun, signed and sealed Sadae (Sadae Yamamoto Walters, born 1929); A wood box with a domed, flush-fitting lid decorated with a poem in gold hiramaki-e, the interior with ferns in gold hiramaki-e on a black-lacquer ground, signed Chikushin; A wood box with a flat, flush-fitting lid decorated with a goose in flight in gold and silver takamaki-e, the interior silver lacquer, signed Oyama and with a kaō 3 1/4in (8.2cm) diameter, the largest (5). For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing