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Fine Golden Age Hexagonal Cloisonne Vase Signed Adachi browse these categories for related items... All Items: Antiques:Regional Art:Asian:Japanese:Enamel: Pre 1920: item # 1004903 Please refer to our stock # 8-058 when inquiring.
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This elegant example of Japanese Golden Age cloisonne is a hexagonal vase decorated with irises and cranes on a turquoise enamel body that tapers gracefully up to a long slender neck. The brass base is stamped with the mark of Adachi Kinjiro of Nagoya. Meiji period (1868-1912). Lustrous colored opaque 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. 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.” 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. CONDITION is excellent, with only some minute pitting which is not uncommon on most cloisonne from this period. DIMENSIONS: 6” (15.2 cm) high, 2” (5 cm) approximate diameter at shoulder. |
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