A cloisonné enamel vase
Mark of Ota (Ota Tameshiro) inside an incense burner | Meiji period, late 19th century
A cloisonné enamel vase bearing the mark of Ota Tameshiro, featuring four alternating panels with birds in seasonal settings including hawks in maple, cherry blossoms, doves in wisteria, and plum blossoms. The rounded rectangular tapering form includes shakudo and oxidised silver mounts with lappets of stylised butterflies.
- Medium
- the rounded rectangular tapering vase with everted neck, shakudo, oxidised silver and gilt-copper mounts, with four alternating panels all decorated in coloured enamels and worked in silver wire, depicting a hawk in a maple tree, sparrows hovering beneath cherry blossom, doves by wisteria and sparrows among plum blossom, the shoulder with lappets containing stylised butterflies, sealed Ota inside an incense burner mark
- Spotted At
- Auction House · Sotheby's
🔨 Auction Lot
Masters of Enamel: The Collection of John and Muriel Okladek | Including Further Japanese Works of Art from the Meiji Period, 1868-1912
October 22, 2021
Estimate: $4,000 – $6,000
Lot 67
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