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Fine Hexagonal Cloisonne Vase, Signed Adachi browse these categories for related items... All Items: Antiques:Regional Art:Asian:Japanese:Enamel: Pre 1920: item # 93377 Please refer to our stock # 8-058 when inquiring.
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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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