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 73. A cloisonné enamel vase | Seal mark Mi (Miwa Tomisaburo) | Meiji period, late 19th century.

Property from the John and Muriel Okladek Collection

A cloisonné enamel vase | Seal mark Mi (Miwa Tomisaburo) | Meiji period, late 19th century

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Property from the John and Muriel Okladek Collection

A cloisonné enamel vase

Seal mark Mi (Miwa Tomisaburo)

Meiji period, late 19th century


the oviform vase with copper-gilt mounts, decorated in coloured cloisonné enamels on a deep blue ground and worked in various thicknesses of gold and silver wire, with sparrows among willow, the foot with a band of floral lappets, seal mark 'Mi' of Miwa Tomisaburo

17.5 cm., 7 in. high

Miwa Tomisaburo was awarded a silver medal at the 1905 Exposition Universelle de Liège and exhibited at the 1910 Japan Britain Exhibition in London.