Masters of Enamel: The Collection of John and Muriel Okladek | Including Further Japanese Works of Art from the Meiji Period, 1868-1912

Property from the John and Muriel Okladek Collection

A cloisonné enamel gourd shaped vase | Sealed mark of the Ando Company | Meiji period, late 19th century

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November 3, 03:18 PM GMT

Estimate

2,000 - 3,000 GBP

Lot Details

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Property from the John and Muriel Okladek Collection

A cloisonné enamel gourd shaped vase

Sealed mark of the Ando Company

Meiji period, late 19^th century

the gourd shaped vase with gilt-copper mounts, decorated in spiral bands of coloured enamels and gold stone, worked in various thicknesses of gilt brass and silver wire, some areas with shosen wirework, with decoration of butterflies, moths and floral roundels, sealed mark of the Ando Company

15 cm., 9 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.

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