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128 | BONHAMS THREE CLOISONNÉ-ENAMEL VASES
Meiji era (1868-1912),
late 19th/early 20th century
Comprising two slender ovoid vases, forming a pair, each worked
in silver and gilt wire with a complementary mirror design of three
pupposo (oriental dollarbird) playfully in flight among tall stalks of millet
beside lilies and violets on midnight-blue ground, each vase unsigned,
24.7cm (9¾in) high; the third baluster vase worked in gold wire with
three sparrows flying over autumnal plants and flowers growing on the
banks of a stream on a midnight-blue ground, unsigned;
each vase 18.5cm (7¼in) high. (3).

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

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A SLENDER CLOISONNÉ-ENAMEL OVOID VASE
Attributed to Ota Motoshiro, Meiji era
(1868-1912), late 19th/early 20th century
Intricately worked in silver wire of varying gauge and decorated with an
overall design of stalks of white chrysanthemums issuing from behind
boulders enclosed within bamboo fences on the banks of a stylised
stream, all reserved on a midnight-blue ground; signed on the base
with the mark of Ota Motoshiro. 16cm (6¼in) high.

£1,500 - 1,800
JPY220,000 - 270,000
US$2,000 - 2,400

The seal is illustrated in Frederic T. Schneider, The Art of Japanese
Cloisonné Enamel: History, Techniques and Artists, 1600 to the
Present, Jefferson NC, McFarland, 2010, p.252, no.160.

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