Yamaguchi Kazuteru (born 1876)
A silver vase of baluster form, worked in relief with ducks on a rocky outcrop on the banks of a fast flowing river or in flight overhead.
Signed Kazuteru chu, Mitsuyuki sen
Height: 37cm
Meiji period, circa 1900
Yamaguchi Kazuteru was born in Gifu prefecture and in 1888 moved to Tokyo. He became a pupil of Sato Kazuhide (1855-1925) in 1894 and later studied under Kagawa Katsuhiro (1853-1917) becoming a court artist. For a pair of imperial presentation silver vases by Kazuteru see the Nasser D. Khalili Collection, Metalwork part II, no. 127.
£35,000
