Collection
No:04001700Candlestick with design of arabesque and peonies in gold and silver inlay
- Artists
- Copper Work Company
- Date
- 19C
- Technique
- inlay
- Description
- This candlestick has five arms on the middle of the shape like a combined two vases. There are silver peonies at the tip of the arms as the holder of the candle. On the top of the body, there is the lid with a deer with the ganoderma lucidum in its mouth. This candlestick is designed the inlaid deer and the bat on the upper part of the arms, the inlaid arabesque on the arms and the inlaid peonies and the geometrical patterns on the lower part of the arms. Because of engraved names, this work is made by YAMAKAWA Koji I and HIRAOKA Chuzo.