A cloisonné enamel vase | Meiji period, late 19th century

Property from the John and Muriel Okladek Collection

A cloisonné enamel vase

Meiji period, late 19^th century

the oviform vase with tall everted neck tapering slightly towards the foot, silver and gilt mounts, decorated in coloured cloisonné enamels and worked in various thicknesses of gold and silver wire, with kingfishers in flight above bamboo and roses on a deep blue ground

15.5 cm., 6⅛ in. high