EXCEPTIONAL PAIR OF DAMASCENE BRONZE AND SILVER VASES BY KAS...

Hammer

£58,000

EXCEPTIONAL PAIR OF DAMASCENE BRONZE AND SILVER VASES BY KASHIMA IPPU (1828-1900)
of square baluster form, the sides each set with a silver panel decorated with carp, duck, fishing boats and mountain landscape views, reserved against a finely worked damascene ground, silver liners and seal mark to underside 
22cm high

22.5cm high

PROVENANCE: Private Collection of JJ Neale.  Joshua Neale along with Henry West set up Neal and West Ltd in 1885 as fish merchants in Cardiff.  The trawlers were given Japanese names following a friendship with a Japanese businessman, such as Fuji, Oku, Kyoto.  During World War I, most of the Neale and West fleet was taken over by the Admiralty, mainly for use as mine sweepers, seven were lost to enemy action.