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

Property from the John and Muriel Okladek Collection

A cloisonné enamel vase

Meiji period, late 19^th century

the pear shaped vase with tall everted neck and silvered mounts, decorated in coloured cloisonné enamels and worked in various thicknesses of silver wire, with three ho-o birds with their long flowing tail feathers beneath paulownia and scrolling foliage entwined around the neck

25.5 cm., 10 in. high