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A JAPANESE INLAID PORCELAIN VASE
Lot 408 PROPERTY OF AN ENGLISH GENTLEMAN

A JAPANESE INLAID PORCELAIN VASE

MIURA CHIKUSEN (1854-1915), CIRCA 1910

Closed16 September 2015

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A JAPANESE INLAID PORCELAIN VASE
MIURA CHIKUSEN (1854-1915), CIRCA 1910
Decorated in underglaze blue and purple enamel and inlaid in coral, green agate and other stones, with a branch of yamabudo (crimson glory vine) and pomegranate, signed Heian Chikusen kansei, with a paper label printed GOLD MEDAL and two other documents regarding the exhibition and a page from The Studio magazine, 1910
11 3/8 in. (28.8 cm.) high

Specialist note

Miura Chikusen I, born in Kyoto, first apprenticed under Takahashi Dohachi, third generation (1811-1879) and later studied painting under Tanomura Chokunyu (1814-1907). After becoming independent in 1883, he actively set out to invent a new expression for porcelain and succeeded in applying a Western colour palette and later inlaying glass and agate as seen in this lot.