SHIBA TAKESHI (ACTIVE CIRCA 1900)


A silver tsurigoro (hanging incense burner)Meiji era (1868-1912), circa 1900The spherical housing cast in two sections and pierce carved with paulownia flowers, leaves, and crane crests, and with chrysanthemum heads at the zenith and nadir, the horizontal joint decorated with keyfret bands in kebori and applied with three rings for suspension cords and a pierced floral ojime, the interior fitted with a removable silver ash cup suspended by a gimbal holding the cup upright irrespective of the movement of the outer sphere, the cup set on tripod feet and decorated with lobed roundels of landscape scenes, the cover pieced with a chrysanthemum and surmounted with a peony-bud finial, signed Tsuchiya Yamashiro no daijo Shiba Takeshi oite kore o tsukuru, with cords and tassels and a wood storage box 5 1/8in (13cm) diameter