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A PART PLIQUE-A-JOUR CLOISONNE ENAMEL VASE
(circa 1900), INLAID SILVER WIRE MARK OF ANDO COMPANY AND INLAID SEAL ANDO SEI
Composed in a representation of three blossoming cherry trees with wide, cylindrical body resting on a flat base which rises to an extended, lobed shoulder following the cherry-blossom-shape of the rim, the shoulder and upper section of the body forming the flowering top of the tree and the trunks and offshoots of the tree placed on the body; the individual blossoms rendered in white transparent enamels with opaque enamel centers, the background rendered in chartreuse transparent enamel and the branches of opaque, wired enamels of grey tinged with pale green to simulate lichen matching the trunks of the trees rising from the foot of the vase, the background worked in pale yellow-orange which also lines the interior, rims metal with traces of original finish, base of chocolate brown enamel inlaid in silver wire with Ando mark and maker's signature in seal characters Tadazumi sei--9 5/8 in. (24.4 cm.) high, 6 1/4 in. (15.8 cm.) diameter at rim
(circa 1900), INLAID SILVER WIRE MARK OF ANDO COMPANY AND INLAID SEAL ANDO SEI
Composed in a representation of three blossoming cherry trees with wide, cylindrical body resting on a flat base which rises to an extended, lobed shoulder following the cherry-blossom-shape of the rim, the shoulder and upper section of the body forming the flowering top of the tree and the trunks and offshoots of the tree placed on the body; the individual blossoms rendered in white transparent enamels with opaque enamel centers, the background rendered in chartreuse transparent enamel and the branches of opaque, wired enamels of grey tinged with pale green to simulate lichen matching the trunks of the trees rising from the foot of the vase, the background worked in pale yellow-orange which also lines the interior, rims metal with traces of original finish, base of chocolate brown enamel inlaid in silver wire with Ando mark and maker's signature in seal characters Tadazumi sei--9 5/8 in. (24.4 cm.) high, 6 1/4 in. (15.8 cm.) diameter at rim