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FUTAGI SEIHO (1884–1954):A large lacquer sakazuki and stand
Showa era (1926-1989)
The red lacquered wide wood sake cup decorated on the obverse in hiramaki-e of snow-covered Mount Fuji ascending above the clouds in the background, and the Shira-ito Waterfall of Fujinomiya and its accompanying forest of maple and pine trees over a nashiji ground in the foreground, the tendrils of water depicted in gold and silver low-relief maki-e flowing to the very edge of the dish, the surface of the rock of the waterfall cliff decorated with gold Gyobu square flakes, on the reverse of the sakazuki a blossoming prunus tree and clouds in gold in hiramaki-e and low-relief; the accompanying black lacquered stand featuring a rimmed platform with a hiramaki-e motif of two cranes in flight surrounded by gold mist, the indented rounded legs of the stand covered in the stalks and leaves of a bamboo forest, the interior of the stand decorated in nashiji; the designs of the sakazuki and stand together completing the felicitous motif of pine, bamboo, and prunus
With lacquered wood outer tomobako storage box signed Futagi Seiho saku in silver lacquer and sealed Seiho in red lacquer, and the sakazuki with its own lacquered wood tomobako storage box which fits inside the larger box, also signed Futagi Seiho saku in silver lacquer and sealed Seiho in red lacquer
2 5/8 x 7 7/8in (6.7 x 20cm), sakazuki; 8 3/8 x 8 1/2 x 7in (21.3 x 21.6 x 17.8cm), stand