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161*
A CLOISONNÉ-ENAMEL LARGE OVAL JAR AND COVER
Style of Honda Yosaburo of Kyoto, Meiji era (1868-1912),
late 19th/early 20th century
Worked in silver wire and polychrome enamels with a wide lappet band
of phoenix alternating with dragon cartouches beneath geometric
panels enclosing foliate motifs and lobed panels enclosing stylised
dragons, the neck with a formal design of a Buddhist necklace,
comprising tasselled jewels hanging from the rim and draping
downwards, the cover designed with overlapping floral roundels and
butterflies on a mulberry ground and a gilt oval finial surmounted by a
large chrysanthemum bud; unsigned.
18.7cm x 23.5cm (7 3/8in x 9¼in). (2).

£6,000 - 8,000
JPY910,000 - 1,200,000
US$8,200 - 11,000
162*
A CLOISONNÉ-ENAMEL MINIATURE JAR AND COVER
By the Shibata Workshop of Kyoto, Meiji era (1868-1912),
late 19th/early 20th century
Finely worked in silver wire and decorated with butterflies hovering
over a flowering shrub of hydrangea and wisteria on one side and
hakuchoge (Serissa japonica) on the other, all reserved on a midnight-
blue ground, the domed cover embellished with three butterflies and
surmounted by a gilt bud finial, applied with gilt brass rim and foot,
signed on a silver tablet Kyoto Shibata; with a plain wood storage box.
13.3cm (5¼in) high. (3).

£6,000 - 8,000
JPY910,000 - 1,200,000
US$8,200 - 11,000 162

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