A seido-nuri (imitating bronze) lacquered cylindrical brushpot


By Harui Komin (1869-1922/3), Meiji (1868-1912) or Taisho (1912-1926) era, early 20th centurySupported on an integral circular stand, decorated all over in seido-nuri (technique imitating bronze) with two tsuba (sword guards), the first showing a sarumawashi (monkey trainer) with his performing pet reserved on a simulated nanako ground, the second tsuba with Bishamonten clutching a halberd in one one hand and a stupa in the other; signed Naniwa Harui saku; with a wooden storage box inscribed outside the lid Fudezutsu, Kusaka shozo (Brush pot, in the collection of Kusaka family), with inscribed paper label Tsuba maki-e Tamonten zu Naniwa Harui saku (Tsuba maki-e with the design of Tamonten [Bishamonten], made by Naniwa Harui). 15cm x 10.2cm (5 13/16in x 4in). (2).