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A PAIR OF CLOISONNÉ-ENAMEL
MORIAGE SLENDER BALUSTER VASES
By Hattori Tadasaburo (died 1939),
Meiji (1868-1912) or Taisho (1912-1926) era,
early 20th century
Each vase decorated in relief with a
complementary design of white and blue
flowers on leafy stems, the silver wires of
varying gauge delineating the veins on the
petals, leaves and stalks, on a pale-green
ground, applied with gilt rims; each vase
signed on the base with incised signature
Hattori on a leaf-shaped reserve.
Each vase: 18cm (7 1/16in) high. (2).

£800 - 1,000
JPY120,000 - 150,000
US$1,100 - 1,400

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168 TWO CLOISONNÉ-ENAMEL VASES
One by Kumeno Teitaro (1861-1939),
Meiji era (1868-1912), late 19th/early 20th
century and one by a Nagoya workshop,
Showa era (1926-1989), mid 20th century
The first a four-sided tomei jippo and moriage
vase decorated with landscape and bird-and-
flower scenes worked in polychrome enamels
and silver wire on a hammered stippled
ground, stamped on the base with the mark of
the Kumeno workshop, 19.5cm (7 5/8in) high,
with a cloth-covered storage box; the second
vase worked in gilt wire with a large flowering
orchid on a pale-yellow ground, applied with
silver rims, unsigned; 16cm (6¼in) high. (3).

£300 - 500
JPY45,000 - 76,000
US$410 - 680

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TWO CLOISONNÉ-ENAMEL VASES
169 One vase by Ota Toshiro (active ca. 1868-
1940), both vases Meiji (1868-1912)
or Taisho (1912-1926) era, early 20th century
The first a rectangular tomei jippo cloisonné-
enamel vase, engraved on a silver substrate
with a dragon emerging from crashing waves
against a hammered stippled ground covered
in transparent red enamel, the rims silvered
metal, signed on the base Ota within a
koro-shape reserve, 25.5cm (10in) high; the
second a hexagonal tsuiki-jippo enamel vase
decorated with overlapping open and closed
fans enclosing different designs enamelled
in transparent green, orange, pale blue, and
purple on a midnight-blue ground, signed on
the base with an unidentified mark, 25cm (9
7/8in) high; with an inscribed wood storage
box. (3).

£500 - 600
JPY76,000 - 91,000
US$680 - 820

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