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A PAIR OF LACQUER SAKE CUP STANDS The Zohiko lineage dates from the time of the Kyoto lacquer craftsman Nishimura
SIGNED ZOHIKO, MEIJI PERIOD (LATE 19TH CENTURY) Munetada (1720-1773), who acquired the nickname “elephant boy” (Zohiko) for
梅流水鴛鴦図蒔絵盃台 一対 his lacquer image of the deity Fugen (Samantabhadra) on an elephant mount.
This stand is possibly from the workshop in the periods of the seventh-generation
銘 象彦 明治時代（19世紀後期） Nishimura Hikobei. His nephew, the eighth generation, received the gold medal for
Each stand of square shape with a slightly raised rim with indented corners, raised his work at the Panama Pacifc International Exposition of 1915.
on four bracket feet, containing a removable tray pierced to accommodate the
raised foot of a shallow sake cup, decorated overall in gold hiramaki-e, takamaki-e, Similar examples sold in Christie’s New York on March 19, 1997, lot 208 and in
gold foil and kinpun on a black ground, the detachable tray depicting plum blossom London on May 18, 2012, lot 180.
beside a cascading stream, the central medallion depicting a pair of mandarin ducks
on a nashiji ground, the sides with a band of shippo-hanabishi, the underside in a
sparse nashiji, silver rims
Each 7cm. high, 10.5cm. square (2)
£800-1,000 $1,400-1,700
€990-1,200
(top and interior)
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