A PAIR OF IMPERIAL PRESENTATION CLOSIONNÉ VASES SIGNED HATTORI KINSEI, MEIJI PERIOD, LATE 19TH CENTURY

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November 3, 04:10 PM GMT

Estimate

80,000 - 100,000 GBP

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THE PROPERTY OF AN ENGLISH GENTLEMAN

A PAIR OF IMPERIAL PRESENTATION CLOSIONNÉ VASES

SIGNED HATTORI KINSEI

MEIJI PERIOD, LATE 19^TH CENTURY

each oviform with short everted neck worked in gold wire and various coloured cloisonné enamels on a yellowish ground in moriage with flowering hibiscus, the leaves in delicately shaded tones of green, the necks with two white enamelled and gold wire chrysanthemum mon, silver mounts

(2)

42.5 cm, 16 1/2 in. high (incl. fitted box)

The vases 34.5 cm, 13 1/2 in. high

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Momotaro Saito, Chief of the Bureau, Imperial Household Accounting Office

Momotaro Saito worked at the Ministry of the Imperial Household from July 1883. He later became Chief of the Bureau, Imperial Household Account Office, between January 1905 and July 1914. He became an entrusted imperial advisor. He died in December 1915.

For another example from the Jerry Freeman Collection see Christie's Zurich, The Avo Krikorian Collection, 19 February 2007, lot 168. For a very similar example in The John R. Young Collection at the Dallas Museum of Art, see accession no. 1993.86.27.FA: https://collections.dma.org/artwork/5280344.