JAPANESE STERLING TEA SET ARTHUR & BOND, YOKOHAMA MEJII

A Japanese sterling bamboo tea service. We are sadly selling our 40 year personal collection of hand crafted Japanese silver wares.

Signed for Arthur & Bond, Yokohama.

The most important silver shop and retailer in late Meiji Japan.

Each piece crafted as a cut out section of bamboo. Sides with delicately fashioned bamboo leaf and ste, Lower body with granular surface as real. The smaller two pieces double walled, as only finest Meiji silver. Twin bamboo shoot and leaf finial. Bamboo handles, the teapot handle original heat stops.

This Japanese sterling bamboo teapot is 9 inches and set 34 1/2 standard ounces.

In excellent condition. Rich, lustreous sterling patina throughout. The brilliant carved bamboo retain their original detail. Cream jug thin indent along base, visible in images.

Massachusetts residents are subject to sales tax.