A silver ewer Meiji (1868-1912) or Taisho (1912-1926) era, early 20th century Set on a splayed foot with a bulbous body and a tall slender neck, the spout formed as a supple stalk of bamboo and the handle as two young bamboo shoots with leaves trailing across the vessel, the foot applied with floral lappets on a stippled ground, the stopper with a finial of a leafy bamboo section, signed on the underside Sansho Zan Tsukuru and with a kao With a wood tomobako storage box 9 7/8in (25.1cm) high