A cloisonné enamel vase
Seal of the Otani Tameshiro workshop | Meiji period, late 19th century
This Meiji period cloisonné enamel vase from the Otani Tameshiro workshop exemplifies Japanese decorative arts at their height of technical refinement. The piece features crows amid cherry blossoms rendered in vivid colored enamels and silver wire work, with copper-gilt mounts completing the composition. The intricate decoration on both front and reverse demonstrates the exceptional craftsmanship of late 19th-century Japanese metalwork.
- Medium
- the vase with broad shoulder tapering to the foot and copper-gilt mounts, decorated in vivid coloured enamels and worked in various thicknesses of silver wire, with crows in branches of cherry blossom, the branches continuing onto the reverse, floral band to the shoulder beneath geometric designs to the neck
- 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: $3,000 – $5,000
Lot 68
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