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The Charlier and Cortina Collection

Saratani Tomizo (b. 1949) | A lacquered stone sculpture | Showa period, 20th century

Lot Closed

September 29, 03:15 PM GMT

Estimate

1,500 - 2,000 GBP

Lot Details

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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.