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A SET OF 11 TABLE KNIVES AND A SET OF SIX SILVER AND A GROUP OF SILVER AND SHIBUICHI TABLE ARTICLES
GILT SPOONS Meiji era (1868-1912), late 19th century
Meiji (1868-1912) or Taisho (1912-1926) era, late 19th/ early 20th Comprising a set of shibuichi chopsticks and matching holder
century decorated with blossoming autumn flowers in iro-e takazogan
The steel blades set into soft-metal handles worked to imitate plaited and hirazogan, signed Shogaku koku; a pair of silver sake cups
bamboo and decorated with birds and flowers, insects, squirrels in a decorated with articles for the New Year in kebori and gold
grape vine, and a cormorant fisherman in iro-e takazogan, each with hirazogan, signed Takatsugu saku, with a wood tomobako storage
the signature of the designer in a gold reserve, the blades all with box signed Yamakawa Takatsugu saku and sealed; a pair of silver
an illegible hallmark, in a tooled-leather hinged storage case; the sake cups decorated with chrysanthemums in uchidashi with gilt
spoons with handles cast with flowering vines in low relief, topped highlights on an ishime ground, with a wood storage box; a pair of
with figures including a geisha in flowing robes, a musician, a maiden silver cylindrical cups with birds in flight by a river bank in katakiri-
balancing a bundle of sticks on her head, and others, highlights in bori, signed Shuzan to and with stamped mark Jungin (Pure silver),
gilt (17) with a fitted box with a hinged cover (4)
9 1/2in (24.1cm) long, the knives 8in (20.3cm) long, the largest
$1,500 - 2,000 $2,000 - 3,000

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