Featured Antique Japanese Yatate , cleaning instructions please !

https://www.ebay.com/itm/3543042398...bvbrZiGE78Xq5KOlSWMqsaZoZ+o9+IHapRI9r4oidXA==


.The one above is not mine.!

Mine is in my hand and virtually identical.....but cleaner, and while no brush......the ink sponge is still there and hale !

There's a mark under the lid, and I'd like to bring it out , and clean up 140 years of gunk...without ruining the patina..... ( though it was bronze at first....but Japanese metals are so warm....)

So, are we happy with the circa Meiji era ..... and how best to spruce it up ????

( when it's cleaner , I'll show the mark...it may mean sum-thing to somebody ...)

I'll take on all comments with welcome abandon .....

Ps. the antique store was asking 200.....but no !!....at 100 I was willing to take it home...so I paid up !
I also got a nice Inuit carved stone bird.....for another C note , ( down from 175..) ...but I made out well on that....for resale.....or most likely as a keeper......she's so cute !

 

Komo, I never saw one of those before. I hope others can help you.

 

So, I hadn't even heard of one before and had to look it up!! Always something new to learn here!!! VERY NEAT!!!

https://www.newpentrace.net/east/yatate/index.html Good images about half way down the page.......

If yours too is made of brass or copper or.....?, which I believe is pretty sturdy stuff, cleaning shouldn't be too difficult!! A bit of "Brasso" might not hurt it, IMHO, but if you're more comfortable waiting for others to chime in, then by all means, @komokwa, then wait!!​

 

well, I don't want to polish it.....just loosen the grime...which around the well should be old ink build up..

 

Alcohol!

 

let’s see that bird!

 

Tomorrow .......I'm too involved with Kyra's alcohol advice....

I chose Rum....

 

Lol! Hope it’s good stuff.

 

spiced rum....dark Venezuela rum, and Quebec blended pineapple rum....

none of my favourites ...but all do the job !!!!

 

I use alcohol on everything, except myself.

 

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I don't agree... I consider, for myself, alcohol is prophylactic... And if you catch some "bug" it is therapeutic!

 

It can be for many people. But with my meningeal problems due to the last vaccination a few years ago, I have had to stop drinking alcohol. To think I am an officially certified wine adviser.
Ah well, there is always chocolate. And it is truffle season now.

 

Ahh, chocolate has same virtues!

 

She's actually an olive green with blue highlights...

I've always loved this stone but even more when the blue is stronger.
A lot of Inuit birds have small feet....and some never stand solid...but this girls feet look like a Hobbits !!!

She's about 8 1/4 x 7 x 2 1/2 inches.....no damage

She's signed...in the smallest of ways by Paul Tuckpani....who at one point was more sought after than he is today....or so I'm told by @Mark London .......

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And now....back to our regularly scheduled program..................

.YATATE.......

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I have less than any idea which orientation for the mark , is correct !

 

I don't know either.....STILL VERY COOL, komo!!!! But I like the top orientation better...... EDIT!!!! My eye JUST caught that BOTH images are pretty much the same way, but they're a bit different....the first one I edited, the LOWER image, I thought looked like a bird's head, looking off to the left....STRANGE what the eyes do!!!! I see more of a lower case "f" script letter with a 'chevron' to the right in the top image!!!

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ewwwww...u show the gunk so clearly.......

 

@komokwa, If you want me to put it back, I will! Once posted, it looked like I just "might" have 'sharpened' it a WEEEE bit too much!!