Live Auction 9155The Japanese Aesthetic
A Silver and Shibuichi Vase
Lot 406 FROM THE COLLECTION OF MANFRED AYLMER SEYMOUR

A Silver and Shibuichi Vase

SIGNED HORYUSAI KOICHI SAKU AND ENAMEL SEALED TAKASAKI, MEIJI PERIOD (LATE 19TH CENTURY)

Closed17 December 2013

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GBP 8,750

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A Silver and Shibuichi Vase
Signed Horyusai Koichi saku and enamel sealed Takasaki, Meiji period (late 19th century)
Applied with silver and gold wire, inlaid in various coloured cloisonné enamels depicting poppies, one seed pod inlaid in gold
17.3cm. high

Manfred Aylmer Seymour
For details of the collector see lot 395

Specialist note

For a similar example by Takasaki Koichi see Oliver Impey and Malcolm Fairley eds., Meiji no Takara, Treasures of Imperial Japan: The Nasser D Khalili Collection of Japanese Art, Metalwork Part I (London, 1995), cat. no. 65