A CLOISONNÉ VASE

SIGNED MURASE ZO, MEIJI PERIOD (LATE 19TH CENTURY)

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A CLOISONNÉ VASE
SIGNED MURASE ZO, MEIJI PERIOD (LATE 19TH CENTURY)
Worked in various thicknesses of silver wire, polished silver leaf with numerous ducks, crested grebe and other birds in a meandering stream, the river bank with fences surrounding scattered flowers and foliage beneath a cherry tree entwined with wisteria, copper and silvered mounts
24cm. high

拍品專文

For a pair of vases of similar design and use of silver wire signed Kawano tsukuru see Oliver Impey and Malcom Fairley The Dragon King of the Sea, Japanese Decorative Art of the Meiji period from the John R. Young Collection (Oxford, 1991), no.17. It states Kawano Yoshitaro worked in Yokohama, more accessible to foreign tourists at the time than Nagoya, and the extreme elaboration of the scene, with its profusion of small detail that does not contribute to the overall shape contrasts strongly with the more austere taste of Kyoto. Kawano used a special motif of small dots of silver to add sparkle to the piece, by the use of short rods of silver wire fused to the body in the same way as were the cloisons.