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Auction House:
Auction Location:
Sydney
Date:
20-Nov-2011
Lot No.
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Description:
A fine pair of Japanese shibayama silver, ivory and enamelled vases Meiji period each with fluted rim and tall everted necks decorated in coloured enamel above a collar with twin dragon handles and decorated with a quail, a hen and other birds to one side and flowers with butterflies to the other inlaid with shell, mother of pearl, ivory and tortoiseshell on ivory ground, raised on a flaring foot with bracket cut-aways and decorated with further coloured enamel, each signed on the ivory and to the underside (Shizan) and (Masaaki) respectively, 28.5 cm high
Estimate:
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Price:
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Category:
Oriental: Zother