A cloisonné enamel oval box and cover | Meiji period, late 19th century

Property from the John and Muriel Okladek Collection

A cloisonné enamel oval box and cover

Meiji period, late 19^th century 

of oval form with inner raised copper-gilt rim and close-fitting cover, decorated in Namikawa-style with various coloured enamels and thicknesses of silver wire, with abstractly placed brocade designs, the cover with a three-clawed dragon on a mottled pinkish ground

9 cm., 3½ in. wide