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FOUR SMALL CLOISONNÉ-ENAMEL
VASES
Meiji era (1868-1912),
late 19th/early 20th century
Each worked in silver wire on a midnight-blue
ground, two baluster vases forming a pair,
each a mirror image of the other, decorated
with a three-clawed dragon writhing across
the front of the vase, each vase unsigned,
15.3cm (6in) high; the third decorated with
a green bird perched on a flowering cherry
tree, unsigned, 18.5cm (7¼in) high; the fourth
a small rectangular vase with a green bird
among maple branches, peonies, irises and
wild chrysanthemums, unsigned, 12.1cm
(4¾in) high. (4).

£800 - 1,200
JPY120,000 - 180,000
US$1,100 - 1,600

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FIVE CLOISONNÉ-ENAMEL VASES
Meiji era (1868-1912),
late 19th/early 20th century
Each vase a different size and shape and
worked mainly in the musen-shippo (wireless
enamel technique), four vases decorated with
a flock of of stylised egrets huddled together,
respectively on a pink ground, 12.8cm (5in)
high, on a pale-blue ground, 6.7cm (2 5/8in)
high, on a celadon ground, 6.5cm (2½in) high,
on a pale-green ground, 9.7cm (3 13/16in)
high; the fifth decorated with a pair of egrets
wading in water among kohone (nuphar or
spatterdock) on a pale-grey ground, 12.7cm
(5in) high; each vase unsigned. (5).

£2,000 - 3,000
JPY300,000 - 440,000
US$2,600 - 4,000

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A PAIR OF CLOISONNÉ-ENAMEL
BALUSTER VASES
Meiji era (1868-1912),
late 19th/early 20th century
Each vase worked in silver wire and with
complementary mirror-image designs of a sagi
(egret) perched on a wood pole issuing from a
river among tall stems of bearded purple and
white irises, one vase with a second egret in
flight; each vase unsigned. Each vase 24.7cm
(9¾in) high. (2).

£1,000 - 1,500
JPY150,000 - 220,000
US$1,300 - 2,000

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