Live Auction 15769Japanese and Korean Art
AN INLAID SILVER VASE
Lot 69

AN INLAID SILVER VASE

MEIJI PERIOD (EARLY 20TH CENTURY), SIGNED ROKUJU ICHI O SHUKYO KOKU (CARVED BY TSUKADA SHUKYO [1848-1918] AT THE AGE OF 61) AND SEALED SHIN ON BODY, SIGNED YOSHIKATSU (KUROKAWA YOSHIKATSU; 1867-1949) ON BASE

Closed18 April 2018

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AN INLAID SILVER VASE
MEIJI PERIOD (EARLY 20TH CENTURY), SIGNED ROKUJU ICHI O SHUKYO KOKU (CARVED BY TSUKADA SHUKYO [1848-1918] AT THE AGE OF 61) AND SEALED SHIN ON BODY, SIGNED YOSHIKATSU (KUROKAWA YOSHIKATSU; 1867-1949) ON BASE
The ovoid vase with long tapered neck, finely carved and inlaid in gold with two minogawa (an auspicious turtle trailing seaweed) and waves, the body engraved with a poem
12 in. (30.5 cm.) high
With an original wood box signed Shukyo kinkoku (made by Shukyo) and sealed Shinyu sai Tsukada Shukyo no in (seal of Tsukada Shukyo)

Specialist note

Tsukada Shukyo had been schooled in painting by Shibata Zeshin (1807-1891) and in metalwork by Kano Natsuo (1828-1898). His art name Shinyusai is composed of the character 'Shin' from Zeshin, and 'yu' from Natsuo as tribute to his great teachers. Shukyo gave a demonstration of his metal carving techniques to the Emperor Meiji and was appointed as an Artist to the Imperial Household (Teishitsugigeiin) in 1913.