A pair of cloisonné enamel vases | Attributed to the workshop of Namikawa Sosuke (1847-1910) | Meiji period, late 19th century

Property from the George Encil Collection

A pair of cloisonné enamel vases

Attributed to the workshop of Namikawa Sosuke (1847-1910)

Meiji period, late 19^th century

each oviform with broad shoulder and high neck, shakudo mounts, decorated in coloured cloisonné enamels and musen [wireless] and various thicknesses of copper-wire on a finely graduated yellow, with a bold depiction of egrets among irises, the shoulder and neck with scattered stylised aoi [leaves of wild ginger] on a mauve ground

each 36.5 cm., 14¼ in. high