A cloisonné enamel scent bottle | Attributed to the Kyoto Namikawa workshop | Meiji period, late 19th century

Property from the John and Muriel Okladek Collection

A cloisonné enamel scent bottle

Attributed to the Kyoto Namikawa workshop 

Meiji period, late 19^th century

of oval form with flat copper-gilt base and screw-top, decorated in various coloured cloisonné enamels and thicknesses of silver wire, with a ho-o bird among scrolling foliage and a butterfly among chrysanthemums on a blue ground, the panel surrounded a diaper design, unsigned

6.4 cm., 2⅞ in. high