AN INLAID SILVER VASE

MEIJI PERIOD (EARLY 20TH CENTURY), SIGNED ROKUJU ICHI O SHUKYO KOKU (CARVED BY TSUKADA SHUKYO [1848-1918] AT THE AGE OF 61) AND SEALED SHIN ON BODY, SIGNED YOSHIKATSU (KUROKAWA YOSHIKATSU; 1867-1949) ON BASE

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AN INLAID SILVER VASE
MEIJI PERIOD (EARLY 20TH CENTURY), SIGNED ROKUJU ICHI O SHUKYO KOKU (CARVED BY TSUKADA SHUKYO [1848-1918] AT THE AGE OF 61) AND SEALED SHIN ON BODY, SIGNED YOSHIKATSU (KUROKAWA YOSHIKATSU; 1867-1949) ON BASE
The ovoid vase with long tapered neck, finely carved and inlaid in gold with two minogawa (an auspicious turtle trailing seaweed) and waves, the body engraved with a poem
12 in. (30.5 cm.) high
With an original wood box signed Shukyo kinkoku (made by Shukyo) and sealed Shinyu sai Tsukada Shukyo no in (seal of Tsukada Shukyo)

Literature

Kuo Hong-Sheng and Chang Yuan-Feng, chief eds. et al., Meiji no bi / Splendid Beauty: Illustrious Crafts of the Meiji Period (Taipei: National Taiwan Normal University Research Center for Conservation of Cultural Relics, 2013), pp. 198-199.

Exhibited

National Palace Museum, “The arts and Cultures of Asia,” 2004. cat. no. 55.
“Meiji Kogei: Amazing Japanese Art,” cat. no. 77, shown at the following venues:
Tokyo Geijutsu Daigaku Bijutsukan (Tokyo University of the Arts Museum), 2016.9.7-10.30
Hosomi Bijutsukan (Hosomi Museum, Kyoto), 2016.11.12-12.25
Kawagoe Shiritsu Bijutsukan (Kawagoe City Art Museum), 2017.4.22-6.11

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Lot Essay

Tsukada Shukyo had been schooled in painting by Shibata Zeshin (1807-1891) and in metalwork by Kano Natsuo (1828-1898). His art name Shinyusai is composed of the character 'Shin' from Zeshin, and 'yu' from Natsuo as tribute to his great teachers. Shukyo gave a demonstration of his metal carving techniques to the Emperor Meiji and was appointed as an Artist to the Imperial Household (Teishitsugigeiin) in 1913.

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