ANTIQUE 20thC JAPANESE SOLID SILVER TEA & COFFEE SERVICE ON TRAY, KONOIKE c.1900

20th Century Japanese Meiji period silver large seven-piece tea and coffee service on tray, comprising: a teapot, a coffee pot, a kettle on stand, a cream jug, a covered sugar bowl, a waste bowl, a covered entree dish on stand, and a large two-handled oval tray. Simply exceptional and magnificent quality, chased and embossed with compressed chrysanthemum flowers in very high relief, with elegant dragon-form handles, body applied with petal shaped spouts, realistically modelled dragons applied with elongated flowing whiskers and sharp claws.

Hallmarked with the makers mark for Konoike, Yokohama, Pure Silver.

Reference Number: A5618 / A5600