WITH ARTIST'S SIGNATURE SEITEI AND SEAL, MEIJI PERIOD (LATE 19TH CENTURY)

The Shijo school artist Watanabe Seitei (1851-1918) frequently provided illustrations for Namikawa Sosuke. The relationship between Seitei and Sosuke is discussed at length by Jack Hillier in an essay in the Enamel Volume (vol.III) of The Nasser D. Khalili Collection of Japanese Art, Treasures of Imperial Japan, in which examples of similar pieces with the signature Seitei are to be found.1

1. Oliver Impey, Malcolm Fairley, The Nasser D. Khalili Collection of Japanese Art, Meiji no Takara Treasures of Imperial Japan, Enamels, (London, 1994), Jack Hiller, Association of Namikawa Soseke and Watanabe Seitei, p.50 and nos. 86, 87, 91, 101