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ATTRIBUTED TO HATTORI TADASABURO (DIED 1939)
A Fine Moriage Cloisonné-Enamel Tall Ovoid Vase
Meiji era (1868-1912), early 20th century
Intricately worked in silver wire and contrasting green-coloured
enamels with overlapping leafy stalks of edamame (stem soybeans)
rendered in moriage (heaped-up) enamels silhouetted against a pale
blue ground, applied with a silver rim and foot; unsigned.
37.7cm (14 7/8in) high.
£20,000 - 30,000
JPY3,900,000 - 5,800,000
US$26,000 - 39,000

An almost identical vase by the artist is published and illustrated by
Chelsea Foxwell and Bradley M. Bailey, Meiji Modern: Fifty Years
of New Japan, exhibition catalogue, New Haven and London,
Japanese Art Society of America, 2023, p.242, cat no.5-32.

See footnote to lot 245.

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