Fine Japanese Works of Art
Fine Japanese Works of Art
The Charlier and Cortina Collection
Lot Closed
September 29, 03:15 PM GMT
Estimate
1,500 - 2,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
The Charlier and Cortina Collection
Saratani Tomizo (b. 1949)
A lacquered stone sculpture
Showa period, 20th century
the natural circular stone decorated in relief with gold and black hiramaki-e, takamaki-e and inlaid in mother-of-pearl, with a wasp caught in the large web of a spider, accompanied with a fitted wood storage box (tomobako), titled Kumo no su [A Spider's Web], signed Tomizo
11 cm., 4⅜ in. wide
Saratani Tomizo (b. 1949) began his career as a lacquerer in the 1960s, apprenticing under lacquer artists Saratani Katsuzo, his father, and Suzuki Masaya. He joined the Kyoto lacquer workshop Zohiko in 1971. In 1975-81 he moved to Vienna as a restorer and lecturer in the Austrian National Museum of Applied Arts (MAK), participating in the Vienna World Craft Exhibition in 1981. Throughout the 1980s-90s, Saratani lived in London and Chicago, both producing his own work as well as carrying out lacquer restoration.