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

Property from the John and Muriel Okladek Collection

A cloisonné enamel spill vase

Meiji period, late 19^th century

the tall cylindrical vase with everted tripod foot, decorated in various coloured enamels and thicknesses of silver wire with sparrows, kingfishers and egrets flying among irises and other flowers and foliage, the foot with ducks on swirling waters, copper gilt mounts 

12.6 cm., 5 in. high