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A PAIR OF SLENDER PEAR-SHAPE CLOISONNÉ-ENAMEL
VASES
Meiji era (1868-1912), late 19th/early 20th century
Each worked in silver wire with a complementary design, one with
decorated with three doves huddled together perched on a sycamore
tree, its pair with a solitary dove on a branch of weeping willow, all on a
pale-blue ground; unsigned. Each vase 34.2cm (13½in) high. (2).

£1,000 - 1,500
JPY150,000 - 230,000
US$1,400 - 2,100
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A TOMEI JIPPO AND MORIAGE CLOISONNÉ-ENAMEL VASE
By Kumeno Teitaro (1861-1939), Meiji era (1868-1912),
late 19th/early 20th century
The elongated ovoid vase decorated with a pair of tancho-zuru
(red-crested cranes) standing on a waved-lashed rock at sunrise,
all worked in polychrome enamels and silver wire and in the musen
(wireless) technique, the surrounding areas designed in transparent
enamels of robin’s-egg blue and yellow over a silver substrate carved
with waves, the cranes, rocks and large crashing waters in uchidashi
(hammered-up) relief, the silver rim in the form of a six-petalled flower;
signed in the silver substrate on the body Kumeno tsukuru within a
rectangular reserve and stamped on the base with the mark of the
Kumeno workshop. 23.5cm (9¼in) high.

£1,000 - 1,500
JPY150,000 - 230,000
US$1,400 - 2,100
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264 | BONHAMS please refer to paragraphs 7 & 8 of the Notice to Bidders at the back of the catalogue.