A Large Cloisonné Enamel Vase

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

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A Large Cloisonné Enamel Vase
Meiji period (circa 1890), signed Kyoto Namikawa [workshop of Namikawa Yasuyuki, 1845-1927]
The slender ovoid vase designed in polychrome enamels and silver wire with trailing wisteria and butterflies above stands of chrysanthemums, irises, daisies and dandelions on a midnight-blue ground, the neck and foot decorated with formal scrolling flowers; silver mounts; signature on a gilt-silver tablet mounted on base
8 5/8in. (21.8cm.) high

Provenance

Shosenkyo Ropeway Cloisonné Art Museum, Kofu, Yamanashi Prefecture

Lot Essay

PUBLISHED:
Hirose Atsushi, ed., Shosenkyo ropuuei shippo bijutsukan: Shosenkyo Ropeway Cloisonné Art Museum, exh. cat. (Kofu: Shosenkyo ropuuei shippo bijutsukan, 1994), pp. 8-9, and cover.

For a nearly identical vase in the Khalili Collection see Impey and Fairley, eds., Enamel, vol. III of Meiji no Takara, Treasures of Imperial Japan (London: Kibo Foundation, 1995), pl. 11.

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