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A CLOISONNÉ ENAMEL VASE
Lot 55

A CLOISONNÉ ENAMEL VASE

MEIJI PERIOD (LATE 19TH CENTURY), SEALED ON FOOT WITH MARK OF KUMENO TEITARO (1865-1939)

Closed22 September 2020

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A CLOISONNÉ ENAMEL VASE
MEIJI PERIOD (LATE 19TH CENTURY), SEALED ON FOOT WITH MARK OF KUMENO TEITARO (1865-1939)
The bulbous body with a long straight neck, decorated in polychrome enamels and silver wires with flower and a dragonfly on a yellow ground, the mouth rim designed with drips in polychrome transparent enamels over foil, seal on base; silver rims
9 7/8 in. (25.1 cm.) high

Specialist note

A pair of vases with almost identical design is in the Donald K. Gerber Collection, see Robert T. Shinger, ed., Polished to perfection / Japanese Cloisonné from the collection of Donald K. Gerber and Sueann E. Sherry (Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2017), p. 62.