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

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

View full screen - View 1 of Lot 65. A cloisonné enamel vase | Attributed to Takahara Komajiro | Meiji period, late 19th century,.

Property from the John and Muriel Okladek Collection

A cloisonné enamel vase | Attributed to Takahara Komajiro | Meiji period, late 19th century,

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Property from the John and Muriel Okladek Collection

A cloisonné enamel vase

Attributed to Takahara Komajiro

Meiji period, late 19th century,


the tapering vase on ring foot, short neck with wide rim and copper-gilt mounts, decorated overall in various coloured enamels and worked in gilt brass wire with ho-o birds among chrysanthemums on a gold wire scrollwork ground, the shoulder with lappets depicting stylised ho-o birds and flowers

19 cm., 7⅝ in.

Takahara Komajiro was a Kyoto-based enameller who opened his own studio in 1894. He won a bronze medal at the 1904 St Louis International Exhibition. Writing in ‘Japanese Art and Artists of Today – VI. Cloisonné Enamels; from The Studio, June 1911’ Professor Harada Jirō mentions that Takahara was an artist ‘of some note… who has recently made some considerable improvements in the ware’.