Sale 1352
Kunsthaus Zurich
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19 February 2007
Price realised
CHF 120,000
Estimate
AN IMPORTANT CLOISONNÉ VASE SIGNED ON A SILVER TABLET KYOTO NAMIKAWA, MEIJI PERIOD (LATE 19TH CENTURY) Worked in gold wire and coloured enamels on a black ground with birds among wisteria, the shoulder with a band of translucent enamel beneath a brocade design, silver mounts 21cm. high
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Literature
Lawrence A. Coben and Dorothy C. Ferster, Japanese Cloisonné, (New York, 1982), p.199, pl.72
Exhibited
The St. Louis, Louisiana Exhibition 1904, illustrated in the Yamashita catalogue, p.258
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