Can anyone please help w Japanese silver Niello box

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mattyyh
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Can anyone please help w Japanese silver Niello box

Postby mattyyh » Wed Feb 05, 2014 10:39 pm

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!

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Re: Can anyone please help w Japanese silver Niello box

Postby dognose » Thu Feb 06, 2014 3:46 am

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mattyyh
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Re: Can anyone please help w Japanese silver Niello box

Postby mattyyh » Thu Feb 06, 2014 8:56 pm

Here are the pic! Thanks!
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Re: Can anyone please help w Japanese silver Niello box

Postby davidross » Thu Feb 06, 2014 9:23 pm

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.

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DR

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Re: Can anyone please help w Japanese silver Niello box

Postby mattyyh » Thu Feb 06, 2014 10:50 pm

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

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Re: Can anyone please help w Japanese silver Niello box

Postby mattyyh » Fri Feb 07, 2014 10:23 am

Here are larger Photos. Thanks!
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Re: Can anyone please help w Japanese silver Niello box

Postby davidross » Sat Feb 08, 2014 1:13 am

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

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Re: Can anyone please help w Japanese silver Niello box

Postby mattyyh » Sat Feb 08, 2014 1:40 am

Thanks for the info DR!


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