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ARTIST UNKNOWN A MORIAGE CLOISONNÉ-ENAMEL BEAKER-VASE
A Moriage and Tomei-Jippo Cloisonné-Enamel Slender Lobed Vase Meiji era (1868-1912), late 19th/early 20th century
Meiji (1868-1912) or Taisho (1912-1926) era, early 20th century The large, cylindrical trumpet body finely worked in silver wire and
Worked in silver wire and polychrome enamels with six butterflies vibrantly coloured enamels with a fruiting ginnan (ginkgo nut) tree with
hovering over tall blooming leafy stems of poppies on a hammered, overlapping leafy branches laden with yellow-hued ripe nuts rendered
stippled ground graduated in colour from purple at the top to green at in moriage (heaped-up) enamels, silhouetted against a pale-blue
the bottom; stamped on the base with the mark of an unknown maker. celadon ground, the leaves extending over the shoulder and inside
19cm (7½in) high. the flaring neck, applied with a silver rim and foot; unsigned.
£4,000 - 5,000 30cm (11¾in) high.
JPY780,000 - 970,000
US$5,200 - 6,500 £10,000 - 15,000
JPY1,900,000 - 2,900,000
US$13,000 - 20,000
Compare a similarly conceived pair of moriage enamel beaker-vases
by Hattori Tadasaburo in the Khalili Collection, see Oliver Impey and
Malcolm Fairley, eds., The Nasser D. Khalili Collection of Japanese Art,
vol.III, Meiji no Takara, Treasures of Imperial Japan: Enamel, London,
The Kibo Foundation, 1995, pl.68.

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