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

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Property from the John and Muriel Okladek Collection

A cloisonné enamel vase | Signed Adachi (Adachi Kinjiro) | Meiji period, late 19th century

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Property from the John and Muriel Okladek Collection

A cloisonné enamel vase

Signed Adachi (Adachi Kinjiro)

Meiji period, late 19th century


the tall oviform vase with everted foot and neck, copper mounts, decorated in coloured cloisonné enamels and worked in various thicknesses of copper wire, with a peacock amongst flowers and foliage and an overhanging cherry tree in bloom, signed Adachi (Adachi Kinjiro)

32 cm., 12⅝ in. high

Little is known of Adachi Kinjiro, but he is recorded as having exhibited at the 1893 World's Columbian Exhibition in Chicago where he was awarded bronze prize.