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A SQUAT OVOID CLOISONNÉ ENAMEL JAR
Attributed to Namikawa Yasuyuki, Meiji era (1868-1912), early 1880s
Intricately worked in gold and silver wire of varying gauge, the body
with four elaborate rounded rectangular panels enclosing three
tanchozuru (red-crested cranes) in flight among stylised wisps of cloud
on a transparent mottled copper ground alternating with a majestic
ho-o (phoenix) on a speckled yellow ground, the shoulder with a
stylised butterfly framing the corner of each panel beneath a floral
band, the short, slightly flared neck with a band of repeated formal
flowerheads, all reserved on a reddish-brown ground, applied with a
gilt brass rim and foot; unsigned. 16cm (6¼in) high.
£5,000 - 6,000
JPY760,000 - 910,000
US$7,100 - 8,500

Very similar designs for the ho-o are illustrated in Yoshida Mitsukuni
and Nakahara Kenji, Nakahara Tessen Kyo shippo monyo-shu
(Nakahara Tessen’s Design Sketches for Cloisonné-enamel), Kyoto,
Tankosha, 1981, p.124, and those of the crane appear in ibid., p.127.

512
TWO CLOISONNÉ-ENAMEL VASES
Meiji era (1868-1912), late 19th/early 20th century
Comprising one baluster vase worked in gold and silver wire with
two sparrows in flight among a flowering cherry tree, a maple tree on
the reverse, the shoulder and foot with a band of repeated lappets
enclosing foliate motifs all on a midnight-blue ground, unsigned,
12.2cm (4¾in) high; the second vase worked in silver wire with five
doves flying in a downward formation on the tall neck reserved on a
midnight-blue ground, unsigned; 19.5cm (7 5/8in) high. (2).
£1,500 - 2,000 512
JPY230,000 - 300,000
US$2,100 - 2,800

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