BY AUGUSTE JEAN, CIRCA 1880

Details

A rare gilt and enamelled blue glass vase
By Auguste Jean, circa 1880
In Japanese style, the footed flattened pear-shaped body with fold over dripping rim and two drop shaped ornaments along the sides, one side painted with cherry branches and a diagonal band holding a book with Japanese characters, the other side showing a folding screen surrounded by flowering sprigs
26cm. high
Enamelled moulded pastille to reverse marked AJean
See illustration

Exhibited

Amsterdam, Van Gogh Museum, Reflections: Japan and Japonism, 19
May/17 September 2000

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Lot Essay

See for a mosque-lamp shaped vase with comparable decoration:
Glas vom Jugendstil bis heute, Sammlung Gertrud und Dr. Karl Funke-Kaiser, Cologne 1981, no. 223

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