Property from the John and Muriel Okladek Collection
A cloisonné enamel vase | Seal mark of Ando | Taisho period, early 20th century
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Property from the John and Muriel Okladek Collection
A cloisonné enamel vase
Seal mark of Ando
Taisho period, early 20th century
the vase with slightly everted neck, decorated in various coloured enamels in silver and gold wire, with a chrysanthemum flower head and foliage on a graduated green and pale blue ground
31.5 cm., 12½in. high
Harada Jiro’s description of the Ando Company mentions that as well as having ‘one large factory’ he [Ando] ‘also has many artists in different parts of Nagoya and Toshima working exclusively for him’. He continues ‘Ando’s rare insight in noting what is best suited for the time and his valuable judgment of colour and form, together with the talent to get the best out of each of the large number of expert enamel artist that came to work for him, enabled him to send out unusually good specimens of shippo wares’. The Ando Company won many prizes at world exhibitions, starting with the World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago, 1893. Around 1900, it was appointed as an official supplier of cloisonné to the Imperial Household.