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Three Ando Cloisonne Enamel Tea Plates, Shochikubai browse these categories for related items... All Items: Vintage Arts:Regional Art:Asian:Japanese:Enamel: Pre 1960: item # 537726 Please refer to our stock # 8-075 when inquiring.
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These three decorative wireless Japanese cloisonné “meimeizara” (plates for the tea ceremony) are decorated with pine, bamboo and plum blossoms (“shochikubai”) in soft translucent enamels on a shimmering foil ground. They date to the mid-20th century and come with their original velvet-lined presentation box. There is a paper label of the Ando Company on the reverse side which is finished in shiny black enamel. Delicate plum blossoms are outlined in pink and green enamels on the lower section of one plate. Purple, green and blue pine boughs decorate the second dish, and the third dish has green, yellow and purple bamboo leaves. The shochikubai is a widespread decorative and symbolic motif made up of the pine, plum blossom and bamboo. Sometimes referred to as the Three Elements of Happiness or the Three Friends of Winter, they are symbolic of staying true to high ideals of scholarship, strength and beauty in time of hardship.
The Ando Cloisonne Company began business in 1880 and has continued to produce fine cloisonné enamel wares. The company has won many prizes at Expositions in Japan and abroad and was granted appointment to the Imperial Household since 1900. Condition is excellent, with no chips, breaks or cracks. The tiny faint brown spots seen on the rims of the plum and bamboo plates are firing flaws beneath the enamel. Dimensions: 4 ½” (11.5 cm) diameter, 3/8” (1 cm) high. |
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