Lot 282

FINE THREE-PIECE SILVER AND ENAMEL TEA SET
BY YOSHIKATSU, MEIJI PERIOD





Fine Asian & Islamic Works of Art
Auction: 15 May 2019 at 17:00 BST
£5,250
Description
comprising a teapot, a sugar bowl and a cream jug, each embossed in high relief with iris blossoms and foliage, some of the flowerheads picked out in polychrome enamels, each article signed Yoshikatsu and marked jungin (pure silver) to the base (3)
Dimensions
largest 21cm high
Footnote
Provenance:
Private Edinburgh collection.
Note:
For a comparable silver koro by Masaaki and Wakayama Yoshikatsu, see Bonhams' sale in their London rooms on 11.05.2017, lot 405.




