CLOISONNE ENAMELS
PROPERTY OF VARIOUS OWNERS
A PAIR OF CLOISONNE ENAMEL VASES
MEIJI PERIOD (LATE 19TH CENTURY)
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A PAIR OF CLOISONNE ENAMEL VASES
meiji period (late 19th century)
Designed in the style of Namikawa Sosuke in wireless and wire-outline techniques in enamels of brown, grey, blues, green and white on a pale grey ground, on one vase a mallard alights on the snow-covered ground and on the other a duck and its mate nestle in snow-laden reeds, a line of wire fretwork and brown enamel above the foot on each vase, bases covered with bubbly brown enamel, rims finished in shakudo
13 3/8in. (33.8cm.) high (2)
meiji period (late 19th century)
Designed in the style of Namikawa Sosuke in wireless and wire-outline techniques in enamels of brown, grey, blues, green and white on a pale grey ground, on one vase a mallard alights on the snow-covered ground and on the other a duck and its mate nestle in snow-laden reeds, a line of wire fretwork and brown enamel above the foot on each vase, bases covered with bubbly brown enamel, rims finished in shakudo
13 3/8in. (33.8cm.) high (2)