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A cloisonné enamel slender ovoid vase Attributed to Ota Motoshiro, Meiji era image 1
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A cloisonné enamel slender ovoid vase
Attributed to Ota Motoshiro, Meiji era

21 March 2018, 11:00 GMT
Edinburgh

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A cloisonné enamel slender ovoid vase

Attributed to Ota Motoshiro, Meiji era
Intricately worked in silver wire of varying gauge and decorated with an overall design of stalks of white chrysanthemums issuing from behind boulders enclosed within bamboo fences on the banks of a stylised stream, all reserved on a midnight-blue ground; signed on the base with the mark of Ota Motoshiro.
16cm high.

Footnotes

The seal is illustrated in Frederic T. Schneider, The Art of Japanese Cloisonné Enamel: History, Techniques and Artists, 1600 to the Present, Jefferson NC, McFarland, 2010, p.252, no.160.

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