Property from the John and Muriel Okladek Collection
A cloisonné enamel vase | Sealed with mark of the Ando Company | Showa period, 20th century,
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November 3, 03:19 PM GMT
Estimate
1,500 - 2,000 GBP
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Property from the John and Muriel Okladek Collection
A cloisonné enamel vase
Sealed with mark of the Ando Company
Showa period, 20th century,
the tapering vase with chrome mounts, decorated in various shades of green enamel with highlights of orange and yellow enamel in silver wire, with narcissi on a green tea dust ground (chakinseki), sealed with mark of the Ando Company
21 cm., 8⅜ in. high
Harada Jiro’s description of the Ando Company mentions that as well as having ‘one large factory’ he [Ando] ‘also has many artists in different parts of Nagoya and Toshima working exclusively for him’. He continues ‘Ando’s rare insight in noting what is best suited for the time and his valuable judgment of colour and form, together with the talent to get the best out of each of the large number of expert enamel artist that came to work for him, enabled him to send out unusually good specimens of shippo wares’. The Ando Company won many prizes at world exhibitions, starting with the World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago, 1893. Around 1900, it was appointed as an official supplier of cloisonné to the Imperial Household.