AN UNUSUAL PAIR OF LARGE JAPANESE CLOISONNE VASES

AN UNUSUAL PAIR OF LARGE JAPANESE CLOISONNE VASES

EDO OR MEIJI PERIOD, 19TH CENTURY

The tall baluster vessels raised on integrated four-legged stands, each side of the square-section bodies with a shaped panel alternately enclosing carps leaping in waterfalls, irises by a stream and lone cranes on the river shore, on a dark blue-green ground embellished with complex designs of peony blooms, brocade patterns, bands of clouds and cash, one with remnants of an old paper collection label, 70cm. (2)

Cf. G A Audsley, The Ornamental Arts of Japan, vol.2, pl.VII, for a comparable cloisonné vase with integrated stand illustrated and discussed. Also, see L A Coben and D C Ferster, Japanese Cloisonné, History, Technique and Appreciation, pl.47, for another example by Hayashi Kodenji IV.

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