A Silver and Lacquer Okimono [Sculptural Ornament]

TAISHO PERIOD (20TH CENTURY)

Details

A Silver and Lacquer Okimono [Sculptural Ornament]
Taisho Period (20th century)
The carved wood base modelled as rockwork and decorated overall in gold lacquer, with a group of four detachable turtles, one with it's young, finely modelled in silver, fitted wood box
24cm. long

Provenance

The collection of the Emperor Taisho

Lot Essay

The box cover is inscribed:

Seki jo kame odana kazari [shelf ornament of turtles on rocks]
The first cargo of the New Year of 1918.
I am granted this as a memento of the Emperor Taisho on 14th April 1927.

Sakamaki Yoshio.

Sakamaki Yoshio was born in Tokyo in Meiji 23rd (1890) and entered the Imperial Household Agency in 1914.

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