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 yellow vase | Seal mark of the Ando Company | Taisho period, early 20th century

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Property from the John and Muriel Okladek Collection

A cloisonné enamel yellow vase

Seal mark of the Ando Company 

Taisho period, early 20th century


the broad oviform vase with tall tapering neck and silver mounts, decorated overall with a finely shaded yellow ground, the neck with white enamel striations, seal mark of the Ando Company 

22.3 cm., 8¾ in. high

Harada Jiro’s description of the Ando Company mentions that as well as having ‘one large factory’ he [Ando] ‘also has many artists in different parts of Nagoya and Toshima working exclusively for him’. He continues ‘Ando’s rare insight in noting what is best suited for the time and his valuable judgment of colour and form, together with the talent to get the best out of each of the large number of expert enamel artist that came to work for him, enabled him to send out unusually good specimens of shippo wares’.   The Ando Company won many prizes at world exhibitions, starting with the World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago, 1893. Around 1900, it was appointed as an official supplier of cloisonné to the Imperial Household.