Can anyone please help w Japanese silver Niello box

[mattyyh]

Hello,
Can anyone please help with this Japan niello box? We have been told it was retailed by Mitsukoshi Sei.

https://www.hightail.com/download/elNJK3BDeFVRWUw0WjhUQw

https://www.hightail.com/download/elNJK3BDeFVEbUp1a3NUQw

Thanks!

[dognose]

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[mattyyh]

Here are the pic! Thanks!

[davidross]

Welcome to the Forum.

Your pics are very small and the marks are nearly illegible, but in the top pic, the first is a jungin silver mark and the second mark that of the maker, Miyamoto.

For more information on Miyamoto and a different mark of theirs, see:

viewtopic.php?f=38&t=24259&start=20&hilit=miyamoto

I think the box is done in Shibayama (inlay of different materials, including precious metals), not niello, but it is very hard to say definitely from the photos provided.

Regards
DR

[mattyyh]

Thanks DR!
I will try and post larger photos tomorrow.

[mattyyh]

Here are larger Photos. Thanks!

[davidross]

Thanks for uploading better photos.

Definitely shibayama, and definitely Miyamoto. The maker used a variety of marks in its long history, this mark looks ca 1930s, possibly 1940s.

Cheers
DR

[mattyyh]

Thanks for the info DR!