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A LARGE SILVER PUNCHBOWL
By Yamaguchi Kazuteru/Issho (1876-circa 404
1930) for the Tenshodo Company, late Meiji
(1868-1912) or Taisho (1912-1926) era, late
19th/early 20th century
Raised on a tall circular spreading foot, the
body decorated in relief with a shoal of carp
swimming just beneath the rippled surface
among irises, two large leafy stalks applied
on either side forming the handles, the
foot pierced with a crayfish and a medaka
(Japanese rice fish) among aquatic plants;
signed on the base with chiselled characters
Issho/Kazuteru koku and stamped Jungin
(Pure silver) above the mark of the Tenshodo
Company. 30cm x 27.5cm
(11 13/16in x 10 13/16in).

£6,000 - 8,000
JPY830,000 - 1,100,000
US$7,400 - 9,900

Born in Gifu 1876, Yamaguchi Issho or
Kazuteru moved with his family in 1888
to Tokyo and at the age of 18 entered the
workshop of Sato Kazuhide (1855-1925).
He also studied with Kagawa Katsuhiro
(1853-1917), one of the most important Meiji-
era metalworkers and, according to some
sources, with Unno Shomin(1844-1915), as
well as learning drawing from Shibata Zeshin
(1807-1891).

The Tenshodo Company of Ginza, Tokyo was
founded in about 1879 and specialised in
high-quality works of art, watches, clocks and
metalwork, commissioning some of the most
important metalwork artists of the period.

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