Lot 106*
A collection of assorted hair accessories Late 19th/early 20th century
10 November 2011, 13:00 GMT
London, New Bond StreetSold for £49,250 inc. premium
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A collection of assorted hair accessories
Late 19th/early 20th century
Comprising twenty-five kanzashi (hair pins) of various materials including glass, gold lacquer, lacquered-wood, inlaid and silvered-metal and horn, two ichidome, sixteen kogai or nobebou, thirty-nine kushi (combs), six signed respectively, Hoitsu hitsu, Seisen Morimitsu after a design by Kano Sosen, Ryosai, Yoyusai, Hosai and Kakosai saku; the majority embellished with different designs, all contained in a plain black-lacquered kodansu. (83).
Comprising twenty-five kanzashi (hair pins) of various materials including glass, gold lacquer, lacquered-wood, inlaid and silvered-metal and horn, two ichidome, sixteen kogai or nobebou, thirty-nine kushi (combs), six signed respectively, Hoitsu hitsu, Seisen Morimitsu after a design by Kano Sosen, Ryosai, Yoyusai, Hosai and Kakosai saku; the majority embellished with different designs, all contained in a plain black-lacquered kodansu. (83).
Footnotes
小箪笥入飾身具コレクション （簪 二十五本、一止め 二本、笄 十六本、櫛 三十九枚）
19世紀後期/20世紀前期
Similar examples are illustrated in Kottou Gunjyo, vol.23, Tokusyu; Jyosei-yo soushin-gu kushi kanzashi (Special issue of ladies' accessories of combs and hairpins), Maria Shobo Ltd., Tokyo, 2004, pp.6-58; and Nihon Jyosei no bi no hensen Edo 300nen bijin-ga to sono jidai (the transformation of the beauty of Japanese women, bijin-ga in 300 years of Edo Period), edited and published by Izumo bunka densho kan (Izumo museum of cultural tradition), Shimane, 2008, pp.52-61.
