Price

£12500.00

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Japanese silver vases with a baluster shape finely carved in katakiribori with flying Manchurian cranes above pine trees and Mount Fuji rising through in the distance, signed Bishun koku 美春刻 (engraved by Bishun) and stamped with the mark Jungin 純銀 (pure silver) and Kobayashi sei 小林製 (made by Bishun Kobayashi for the Kobayashi Company) with silk lined bag and hardwood stands, Taisho period.

The tomobako wood storage box inscribed Gin unkaku kabin, ittsui 銀雲鶴花瓶, 壱対 (a pair of silver vases with design of clouds and cranes).

Kobayashi Bishun 小林美春 was active in the Meiji and Taishō periods. He is listed in the Toso Kinko Jiten by Wakayama Takeshi pg. 530. His given name was Daiyu (Daisuke) and lived and worked in Osaka and Tottori. 

The Kobayashi Clock Company was based in Tokyo and produced fine metalwork.

Reference:
Meiji no Takara 明治の宝 Treasures of Imperial Japan, the Nasser D. Khalili Collection, the Kibo Foundation 1995, Metalwork Part I, no. 44.

Dimensions

H: 31cm (12.2") x W: 13cm (5.1")

Weight

2.625Kg (92.59 oz)

Price

£12500.00



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