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ANDO JUBEI (1876-1953)
A pair of cloisonné-enamel vases
Meiji era (1868-1912), late 19th/early 20th century
Cylindrical, tapering to the foot and with slightly everted mouth,
each vase worked in silver wire and colored enamels with a rooster
and hen in a bamboo grove, the bamboo stalks in the background
in musen (“wireless”) cloisonné technique, all against a pale green
ground, signed with the silver-wire mark of the Ando company on a
brown enamel ground; with original fitted hardwood stands
With a tomobako wood storage box inscribed Gobutsu kabin ittsui
and with several paper collection labels with similar inscriptions, one
bearing a date of 1904
15 1/2in (39.3cm) high

$8,000 - 10,000
Provenance
Purchased mid 1960s, thereupon to the present owner by descent

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