拍品 27
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A JAPANESE-EXPORT SILVER EIGHT-PIECE TEA SERVICE WITH TRAY**
A JAPANESE-EXPORT SILVER EIGHT-PIECE TEA SERVICE WITH TRAY**

MAKER'S MARK OF ARTHUR & BOND, YOKOHAMA, CIRCA 1900

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A JAPANESE-EXPORT SILVER EIGHT-PIECE TEA SERVICE WITH TRAY**
Maker's mark of Arthur & Bond, Yokohama, circa 1900
Iris pattern, comprising kettle on stand with burner, teapot, Japanese-style teapot, tea caddy, cream jug, sugar bowl, pair of sugar tongs, and waste bowl; each globular on a circular foot, the body chased and repouss with blooming irises in a pond, with scroll spout, the handle with ivory insulators, the Japanese teapot with carved ivory handle, the cover with similar decoration and surmounted by a finial formed as the petals of an iris, the shaped oval tray with two handles and similar decoration, marked under bases
The kettle on stand 17in. high; the tray 31in. long over handles; gross weight 331oz.
Arthur & Bond (9)

拍品專文

Arthur & Bond of Yokohama catered to the Western market. Their silverware made frequent use of the iris pattern, such as an extensive late-nineteenth century silver dressing table set which was offered at Christie's, London, June 16-17, 1997, lot 350.

Arthur & Bond's iris pattern may have influenced the 307-piece table service assembled by Shreve & Company, San Francisco, between 1907 and 1917. This service is now in the collection of the De Young Museum, San Francisco.