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A SMALL CLOISONNÉ-ENAMEL VASE
Meiji era (1868-1912), late 19th century
Set on a splayed foot and worked in silver wire and polychrome
enamels with butterflies and pinks against a midnight-blue ground,
the neck and foot with florets and vines on a gray-green ground,
silvered rims
4 1/2in (11.6cm) high

$1,500 - 2,500

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TWO CLOISONNÉ-ENAMEL VASES
Meiji era (1868-1912), late 19th century
The first a square-sided baluster vase set on a splayed foot and
decorated in polychrome enamels and silver wire with four panels
containing phoenixes and dragons against a mustard-colored
ground, the surrounding areas decorated with flowering vines, the
shoulder with a lappet collar containing floral designs; the second
of elongated ovoid form and worked in silver wires and polychrome
enamels on a mustard-colored ground with sparrows in flight above
blossoming chrysanthemums, the shoulder with a band of swirling
clouds and bats in flight, the neck decorated with a “comb-tooth”
pattern
12 1/8in (30.6cm); 9 1/4in (23.4cm) high

$1,200 - 1,800

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A PAIR OF CLOISONNÉ ENAMEL VASES
Meiji era (1868-1912), late 19th century
Each with compressed bodies and long, tapered necks flaring slightly
at the mouth, decorated in polychrome enamels and silver wire on
a midnight-blue ground with birds in trailing wisteria, the mouth
decorated with floral garlands
12 1/4in (31.1cm) high 1225
$2,500 - 3,500

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