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PROPERTY FROM A GREENWICH, CONNECTICUT COLLECTOR
A JAPANESE SILVER SIX-PIECE TEA AND COFFEE SERVICE
MARK OF KONOIKE, EARLY 20TH CENTURY
Details
A JAPANESE SILVER SIX-PIECE TEA AND COFFEE SERVICE
MARK OF KONOIKE, EARLY 20TH CENTURY
Comprising a teapot, a coffee pot, a hot water kettle-on-stand with burner, waste bowl, sugar bowl and cover and a cream jug, all decorated with whiskered dragons amid vaporous waves, all marked underneath and with 'jungin' pure silver mark
The kettle-on-stand 14 ½ in. (36.8 cm.) high; 159 oz. (4,958 gr.)
MARK OF KONOIKE, EARLY 20TH CENTURY
Comprising a teapot, a coffee pot, a hot water kettle-on-stand with burner, waste bowl, sugar bowl and cover and a cream jug, all decorated with whiskered dragons amid vaporous waves, all marked underneath and with 'jungin' pure silver mark
The kettle-on-stand 14 ½ in. (36.8 cm.) high; 159 oz. (4,958 gr.)
Provenance
Sotheby's, New York, 22 January 2000, lot 2