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 | Meiji period, late 19th century

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November 3, 02:35 PM GMT

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4,000 - 6,000 GBP

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Property from the John and Muriel Okladek Collection

A cloisonné enamel vase

Meiji period, late 19th century


the oviform vase tapering towards the foot with slightly everted neck and silvered copper mounts, decorated in coloured enamels and worked in wireless (musen) and in relief (moriage), with a butterfly hovering among thistles entwined among bamboo

24.5 cm., 9½ in. high

Moriage (lit. ‘piling-up’) is a painstaking technique, which requires extreme care, especially at the polishing stage; it involves the building up layers of enamel to produce a three-dimensional effect. It was ideally suited to natural subjects such as plants and flowers but was used for the depiction of other subject matter as well and works particularly well for depicting fish swimming through ripples of water.