A cloisonné enamel tray | Signed in thick silver wire Sakigake (studio of Namikawa Sosuke, 1847-1910) | Meiji period, late 19th - early 20th century

A cloisonné enamel tray

Signed in thick silver wire Sakigake (studio of Namikawa Sosuke, 1847-1910)

Meiji period, late 19^th - early 20^th century

the square tray decorated in variously coloured wireless cloisonne enamels (musen) on a pale grey ground with a duck in flight before a misty full moon, shakudo rim, the reverse with scrolling karakusa worked in copper-gilt wire, signed to the reverse in thick silver wire Sakigake (studio of Namikawa Sosuke, 1847-1910)

28.2 x 28.2 cm., 11⅛ x 11⅛ in.