Page 144 - Bonhams Japanese art nov 7 2024

(reverse)

PROPERTY FROM A DISTINGUISHED DECEASED ESTATE

245
HATTORI TADASABURO (DIED 1939) Published and Illustrated:
A Fine and Large Moriage Cloisonné-Enamel vase Gregory Irvine, Japanese Cloisonné Enamels: The Seven Treasures,
Meiji (1868-1912) or Taisho (1912-1926) era, early 20th century London, Victoria and Albert Museum, 2006, p.127.
The large squat vase with a thick cylindrical neck flaring out to
the mouth, worked in standard and musen (‘wireless’) cloisonné Hattori Tadasaburo of Nagoya was among the finest cloisonné-
techniques with an overall design of trailing morning glory rendered enameling masters of his day, excelling in a wide range of innovative
in moriage (heaped-up) enamels, the silver wires of varying thickness techniques and styles. He opened his own studio in 1888 and
delineating the stems and veins of the leaves, the enamels in won international honours at the 1893 Chicago World’s Columbia
contrasting shades of aubergine and white imitating the natural tones Exposition; at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, held at St. Louis
of the wild plant, all against a dull olive-green ground, applied with in 1904, his enamels were, most unusually, shown in the Art Palace
a silver rim and foot, the base with an incised signature Hattori in a rather than the larger but less prestigious Palace of Varied Industries.
leaf-shaped reserve, with a wooden stand pierced with a basketwork It is not certain whether or not he invented the demanding moriage
design and a wood storage box inscribed Do shippo asagao (‘piled-up’) technique seen here, but he was certainly among the first
moriage kabin (Copper cloisonné moriage vase with morning glory to exhibit it, starting at St. Louis, and is admired for the way that he
design) and Meiji yonjunen Chokokai goyohin succeeded in raising moriage designs to an unusually high level above
(Commissioned by the Carvers’ Association, 1907). the ground enamel; see Frederic T. Schneider, The Art of Japanese
The vase: 27cm x 27cm (10 5/8in x 10 5/8in); Cloisonné Enamel: History, Techniques and Artists: 1600 to the
the stand: 13cm x 22cm (5 1/8in x 8 5/8in). (3). Present, Jefferson N.C., McFarland & Company, Inc., 2010, p.202.
£15,000 - 20,000
JPY2,900,000 - 3,900,000
US$20,000 - 26,000

For details of the charges payable in addition to the final Hammer Price of each Lot
142 | BONHAMS please refer to paragraphs 7 & 8 of the Notice to Bidders at the back of the catalogue.