A MAGNIFICENT CLOISONNÉ ENAMEL VASE SIGNED KYOTO NAMIKAWA (NAMIKAWA YASUYUKI, 1845-1927), MEIJI PERIOD, LATE 19TH CENTURY

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THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN

A MAGNIFICENT CLOISONNÉ ENAMEL VASE

SIGNED KYOTO NAMIKAWA (NAMIKAWA YASUYUKI, 1845-1927)

MEIJI PERIOD, LATE 19TH CENTURY

the tall vase, oviform with rounded shoulders and everted neck and foot, decorated in various coloured cloisonné enamels, gold and silver wire, with a cockerel and hen beneath cherry blossom and other flowers and foliage and birds hovering above, the foot and neck with a wide silver collar, enamelled with a band of geometric design and cherry blossom on a translucent blue ground, the foot with initials G.P., signed on a silver tablet

29.5 cm, 11 5/8 in. high

Commemorating the 2005 World Exposition, Aichi, Japan: Arts of East and West From World Expositions 1855-1900 : Paris, Vienna and Chicago, exhib. cat. (Tokyo, 2004), pl. I-350

The Art of the Period of Opening the Port of Yokohama from the Tokugawa Era to Meiji, exhib cat. (Yokohama, 2009), pl. 186

Oliver Impey and Malcolm Fairley, Meiji no Takara: Treasures of Imperial Japan. The Nasser D. Khalili Colelction of Japanese Art, vol. III (Kibo Foundation, 1995) pp. 20-40

Nakahara Kenji and Yoshida Mitsukuni, Kyo-shippo mon'yo shu (Kyoto, 1981), p. 160

Herbert George Ponting, In Lotus-Land Japan (London, 1910) p. 58

George Henry Peters, Impressions of a Journey Round the World, Including India, Burmah and Japan (London, 1897), p. 239