A pair of cloisonné enamel vases | Meiji period, late 19th century

Property from the John and Muriel Okladek Collection

A pair of cloisonné enamel vases

Meiji period, late 19^th century

the large oviform vases with everted neck and copper mounts, decorated in coloured cloisonné enamels and worked in copper wire, with a three-clawed dragon and kirin before a profusion of stylised clouds, the shoulder with shaped lappets alternately depicting chrysanthemums, butterflies among peonies, ho-o birds and paulownia, the foot and neck rim bordered with shaped panels of stylised butterfly motifs, floral and geometric design, unsigned 

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Each 40 cm.,15¾ high