A Cloisonné Enamel Bottle

MEIJI PERIOD (CIRCA 1890), SIGNED KYOTO NAMIKAWA [WORKSHOP OF NAMIKAWA YASUYUKI, 1845-1927]

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A Cloisonné Enamel Bottle
Meiji period (circa 1890), signed Kyoto Namikawa [workshop of Namikawa Yasuyuki, 1845-1927]
The double-gourd bottle worked in silver wire and polychrome enamels with butterflies and wisteria against a mottled brown and black ground, the shoulder designed with bees, wisteria and foliate scroll on a mustard-yellow ground, the neck with floral lozenges on black and the foot ringed with a band of irises; mounts silver; foot incised with the initials M.A.
7½in. (19cm.) high

Lot Essay

For a pair of vases of identical design and decoration in the collection of the Tokyo National Museum, probably exhibited at the Worlds Columbian Exposition of 1893, and purchased in 1894, see Lawrence A. Coben and Dorothy C. Ferster, Japanese Cloisonné, History, Technique and Appreciation, (New York: Weatherhill, 1982), pl. 59 [dimensions given incorrectly]. For a bottle of similar design but in different palette, see Impey and Fairley, eds., Enamel, vol. III of Meiji no Takara, Treasures of Imperial Japan (London: Kibo Foundation, 1995), pl. 10, fig. 8.

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