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A rare and fine pair of Imperial Presentation inlaid silver ovoid vases By Yotsuya Masami (1876-1941), Taisho Period image 1
A rare and fine pair of Imperial Presentation inlaid silver ovoid vases By Yotsuya Masami (1876-1941), Taisho Period image 2
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A rare and fine pair of Imperial Presentation inlaid silver ovoid vases
By Yotsuya Masami (1876-1941), Taisho Period

Fine Japanese Art
11 May 2010, 10:30 BST
London, New Bond Street

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A rare and fine pair of Imperial Presentation inlaid silver ovoid vases

By Yotsuya Masami (1876-1941), Taisho Period
Both finely decorated in nukibori and kebori and inlaid in gilt, shakudo and silver takazogan, both vases showing snow-covered mountainous landscape, one with a fishing village nestled amid pines and mountain ranges, the other depicting thick blankets of snow melting over the steep rock faces in the afternoon sun, the details of the rock faces delicately picked out in katakiribori; the neck of both vases applied with a gilt Imperial kikumon, the base of both vases signed Yotsuya Masami kinkoku with kao; with two wood stands and wood storage box, the inside of the lid inscribed Taisho jugo-nen juichi-gatsu mikka, Nihon Sekijuji-sha dai sanju-yon-kai tsujo sokai narabi soritsu goju-nen shukuten, kogo heika gyokei no setsu sikijo benden ni oite, ten'no kogo ryoheika yori gohairyo (Presented by the Taisho Emperor and Empress, on the 3rd November of Taisho 15 [1926], to the 34th General Assembly of the Japan Red Cross, on the 50th anniversary of the foundation). Both vases 32½cm (12¾in) high. (5).

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山水図銀花瓶　一対　四谷正美　大正時代

Little is recorded about Yotsuya Masami, which is surprising given the extraordinary quality of his work; he was also known as Yotsuya Gozan and graduated from Tokyo Bijutsu Gakko (Tokyo University of the Arts) in 1899. Other metal works by the artist are in the collection of the Museum of Tokyo University of the Arts.

The artist is probably that erroneously recorded as Masayoshi (an alternative reading to the same Chinese characters) by Wakayama Takeshi, Kinko jiten (A dictionary of metalworkers), Token Shunju Shinbun-sha, Tokyo 1999, p.827.

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