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 46. A cloisonné enamel vase | Signed Adachi (Adachi Kinjiro) in hiragana and with stamped studio mark | Meiji period, late 19th century.

Property from the John and Muriel Okladek Collection

A cloisonné enamel vase | Signed Adachi (Adachi Kinjiro) in hiragana and with stamped studio mark | 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) in hiragana and with stamped studio mark

Meiji period, late 19th century


the tapering vase with everted neck, silvered copper mounts, decorated in various coloured translucent enamels over thinly hammered foil, and worked in various thicknesses of silver wire on a deep blue ground, with a hawk in the bowing branches of an autumnal maple tree, above sprays of chrysanthemums, 

25 cm., 10 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.