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A MINIATURE CLOISONNÉ-ENAMEL
SLENDER BALUSTER VASE
By Namikawa Yasuyuki (1845-1927), Meiji era
(1868-1912), late 19th/early 20th century
Worked in musen and silver wire with a design
of a solitary tanchozuru (red-crested crane)
flying towards a clump of four young pines
outlined in silver wire, on a pale brown ground,
applied with a silver rim and foot; the base
signed with the impressed seal-mark
Kyoto Namikawa. 11cm (4 3/8in) high.

£4,000 - 6,000
JPY590,000 - 890,000
US$5,300 - 7,900

For information regarding Namikawa Yasuyuki,
please refer to the footnote to lot 212.

199
TWO CLOISONNÉ-ENAMEL VASES
One by Inaba Nanaho, Meiji era (1868-1912),
late 19th/early 20th century
Each vase worked in silver wire on a midnight-
blue ground, the slender smaller ovoid vase
depicting an uguisu (bush warbler) perched
on the flowering branches of a cherry tree,
signed on the base with chiselled characters
on a silver plaque Kinunken [Inaba Nanaho]
tsukuru, 18.5cm (7¼in) high; the larger baluster
vase decorated with an agehacho (swallowtail)
perched on the edge of a leaf of flowering white
lilies, stamped on the base with an unidentified
single character within a petal-shaped reserve,
18.7cm (7 3/8in) high. (2).

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

For details of the charges payable in addition to the final Hammer Price of each Lot 199
please refer to paragraphs 7 & 8 of the Notice to Bidders at the back of the catalogue. FINE JAPANESE ART | 115