Live Auction 2596Japanese Art & Design Including Arts of The Samurai
A Gilt-Silver Cloisonné Crucifix
Lot 253

A Gilt-Silver Cloisonné Crucifix

MEIJI PERIOD (LATE 19TH CENTURY)

Closed9 November 2011

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GBP 2,125

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A Gilt-Silver Cloisonné Crucifix
Meiji Period (late 19th century)
Finely enamelled with a lozenge diaper ground, with four-lobed panels depicting emblems of the Crucifixion, with applied cast figure of Christ, silver and gilt mounts
29cm. high

Specialist note

For a similar example in the Nasser D. Khalili collection see Oliver Impey and Malcolm Fairley (eds.), Meiji no Takara, Treasures of Imperial Japan, Enamel, (London, 1994), no.78