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ANDO JUBEI (1876-1953)
A fine wireless cloisonné-enamel vase
Taisho (1912-1926) or Showa (1926-1989)
era, first half 20th century
The lantern-shaped vessel worked in
polychrome enamels and silver wire with
dragonflies in flight, the insects decorated in
various shades of blue, green, and brown,
the wings accented with silver wires, the
background gradually changing from yellow
to sea-foam green toward the base, signed
on the base with the Ando mark, silver
mounts stamped Jungin (Pure silver) on the
foot rim
12 1/4in (31cm) high

US$50,000 - 70,000
The most famous and largest of all the great
Nagoya enameling enterprises, the Ando
Company grew from modest beginnings
in 1880 and started to enjoy to attract
widespread notice in the mid-1890s;
thereafter enamels made or commissioned
by Ando received medals at international
expositions virtually every year from 1900
until 1911. The Company continued to
prosper even after the heyday of Japanese
cloisonné enameling in the early years of
the twentieth century; the present lot is an
outstanding example of later Ando work.
For further information, please refer to
Frederic T. Schneider, The Art of Japanese
Cloisonné Enamel: History, Techniques and
Artists: 1600 to the Present, Jefferson NC,
McFarland & Company, Inc., 2010, p. 77.

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