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CLOISONNÉ-ENAMEL
WORKS OF ART
Property from a European
Private Collection
(Lots 495-509)
495
FOUR CLOISONNÉ-ENAMEL VASES
AND ONE CLOISONNÉ-ENAMEL TRAY
Meiji era (1868-1912),
late 19th/early 20th century
Each worked in silver wire of varying
gauge, comprising a pair of ovoid vases
decorated with trailing wisteria on a celadon
groud, each unsigned, 15.2cm (6in) high;
the third decorated with a stalk of spider
495 chrysanthemum on the light green ground,
signed on the base with an unknown mark
of two characters Mori on two crossed flags,
18cm (7 1/16in) high; the fourth a straight-
sided baluster vase with a flock of huddled
egrets wading in an iris pond, unsigned,
24.7cm (9¾in) high; the last a rectangular
shallow dish decorated with a cockerel
and hen reserved on a light-blue ground,
unsigned, 12.2cm x 18.3cm (4 13/16in x
7¼in). (5).

£1,200 - 1,500
JPY180,000 - 230,000
US$1,700 - 2,100
496
FIVE CLOISONNÉ-ENAMEL VASES
Meiji era (1868-1912),
496 late 19th/early 20th century
Each worked in silver wire of varying gauge on
a midnight-blue ground, the first a rectangular
vase decorated with a snarling writhing dragon,
unsigned, 15.2cm (6in) high; the second a
squat pear-shaped vase similarly decorated
with dragon coiled around the body of the
entire vase, unsigned, signed on the base
Tamura tsukuru within a rectangular reserve,
15.5cm (6¼in) high; the third a spherical vase
with three large butterflies, unsigned, 6.5cm
(2½in) high; the fourth a hexagonal vase
decorated with bearded stalks of purple and
white irises, signed on the base with the mark
of Ota Tamejiro, 15.5cm (6 1/16in) high; the
fifth a miniature ovoid vase with two strutting
pheasants, signed on the base in tensho script
with an unknown mark Ki
9.5cm (3¾in) high. (5).
£1,200 - 1,800
JPY180,000 - 270,000
US$1,700 - 2,500

497
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254 | BONHAMS please refer to paragraphs 7 & 8 of the Notice to Bidders at the back of the catalogue.