Japanese Cloisonne Charger, Meiji Period
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Pre 1920 item# 418080 (stock# 8-072)
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This lovely Japanese cloisonné charger with a brass rim and foot is decorated with a white heron standing on one leg in the water amid green lotus leaves with pink and white blossoms. Meiji period (1868-1912). Opaque enamels are enclosed in brass wires to create the large central medallion with a turquoise ground which is surrounded by a thick karakusa scrolling vine pattern border in red, blue and green enamels on a white enamel ground. The reverse rim is finished in opaque white enamel with scrolling brass wires all around the foot ring, which is covered with turquoise enamel. Cloisonne is an artcraft which requires great technical knowledge as well as the skill to produce an aesthetically pleasing item using a combination of vitreous enamel and metal wires. The wires are arranged in designs upon the metal body, into the compartments (“cloisons”) of which the enamels are packed. The item is then fired repeatedly to bring the enamels above the level of the wires and then buffed and polished many times. Condition is excellent, with only minor pitting which is not uncommon on cloisonne pieces from this period. Dimensions: 10 ¾” diameter, 1” high.
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Fine Japanese Cloisonne Belt Buckle
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Pre 1920 item# 409417 (stock# 8-070)
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This exquisitely-detailed Japanese cloisonne enamel belt buckle with silver wires dates to the early 20th century. The craftsmanship is very fine, and each side is decorated with auspicious calligraphic symbols in black enamel set against a sparkling goldstone ground. The Japanese mark on the left side is “kotobuki” or “ju.” This mark originated in China (where it is known as “shou”) and has several felicitous meanings such as long life, happiness or congratulations. The Japanese mark on the right, which we have not been able to identify, is also likely to be a mark of felicitation. The irregular edge is surrounded with tiny blue enamel circles outside of a larger green leaf-shaped border. The reverse side is covered in green enamel, and the trim and closure hooks appear to be silver. Condition is excellent, with only some very minute pitting which is not uncommon on cloisonne pieces from this period. This lovely buckle would make a stunning accessory to any outfit. Overall dimensions: 3” long, 2” high.
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Fine Hexagonal Cloisonne Vase, Signed Adachi
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Pre 1920 item# 93377 (stock# 8-058)
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This elegant example of Japanese Golden Age cloisonne has a turquoise ground decorated with irises and cranes on a hexagonal body that tapers gracefully to a long slender neck. The brass base is engraved with the mark of Adachi Kinjiro. Meiji period. Lustrous colored enamels fill silver wires to depict two white cranes in a stream surrounded by a profusion of white and purple irises. The gradation of color in the many shades of purple in the irises is very skillfully executed. Three cranes are in flight above the flowers, and a border of tiny red enamel circles surrounds the brass neck and foot. The hexagonal form vastly increases the degree of difficulty in executing the design and the enameling. Adachi Kinjiro’s distinctive signature, which incorporates hiragana characters within the mark, is illustrated as Mark 1 on page 208 of Coben & Ferster’s book "Japanese Cloisonne." The three and a half decades (1880-1914) which comprised the Golden Age were a formative period during which technology, art and the marketplace simultaneously converged, resulting in many innovations in the art of enameling that received world-wide recognition and were purely Japanese in style. The Golden Age of Japanese cloisonne is considered the “age of masterpieces.” Condition is excellent, with only some minute pitting which is not uncommon on most cloisonne from this period. Dimensions: 6” high, 2” approximate diameter at shoulder.
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