A Miscellanous group of sake cups and other lacquer pieces


Meiji era (1868-1912), late 19th/early 20th centuryComprising five red lacquer sakazuki (sake cups), each of differing size and decorated in gold takamaki-e with different scenes: (1) a throughfare down a row of shops, signed Byakkisai, 8.3cm (3¼in) diam.; (2) a branch of pine lying beneath an open fan embellished with the single character ki, signed Motomasa on the front and Kizo Tatsumi Kiyomasa on the base, 9cm (3½in) diam.; (3) the hull of a ship piled with precious things, unsigned, 9.5cm (3 5/8in) diam.; (4) a hawk perched on a pine tree, unsigned, 13.1cm (5 1/16in) diam.; (5) a bird perched on a cherry branch, unsigned, 10.4cm (4 1/16in) diam.; a black-lacquer teacaddy decorated with cherry blossoms and trailing fern, unsigned, 7cm (2¾in) high; an inlaid wood tonkotsu decorated with a blackbird perched on a berried branch on one side and in flight against the crescent moon on the other, 5.3cm x 10.2cm (2in x 4in); the pipecase carved with persimmons on one side and a long inscription (unread) on the reverse, possibly signed by Tosai, 20.5cm (8in) long; the last a stag antler kiseruzutsu (pipecase) in the form of two twisted lotus stalks, inscribed with a seal Koku, 16cm (6¼in) long. (9).