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 15. A cloisonné enamel scent bottle | Signed Kyoto Namikawa (workshop of Namikawa Yasuyuki, 1845-1927) | Meiji period, late 19th century.

Property from the John and Muriel Okladek Collection

A cloisonné enamel scent bottle | Signed Kyoto Namikawa (workshop of Namikawa Yasuyuki, 1845-1927) | Meiji period, late 19th century

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Property from the John and Muriel Okladek Collection

A cloisonné enamel scent bottle

Signed Kyoto Namikawa (workshop of Namikawa Yasuyuki, 1845-1927)

Meiji period, late 19th century


the round scent bottle with flat copper-gilt base and chrysanthemum-shaped screw-top, decorated in various coloured cloisonné enamels and thicknesses of gold and silver wire, with roundels each depicting a butterfly among chrysanthemum and wild pinks, one on a blue ground, the other on a mottled green ground, signed Kyoto Namikawa (workshop of Namikawa Yasuyuki, 1845-1927)

6 cm., 2⅜ in. high