A Japanese cloisonné enamel bottle vase, Meiji Period

the globular body rising from a short spreading foot to a tall slender neck with flaring rim, decorated to one side of the body with a white and yellow foliate mon symbol reserved on a pale celadon-green ground, the foot and rim bound in white metal

This cloisonné vase is in good condition, but there are minor scratches to the sides.
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