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Pair of cloisonné vases with design of flowers and birds on blue ground

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Shippo Company

  • Meiji period, 1889
  • shippo cloisonné
  • pair of vases

Crafts – Cloisonné Enamels

A large vase created to decorate the Chigusa-no-ma hall of the Meiji Palace, which was completed in 1889. Various flowers mainly of the early summer, such as cotton roses, lilies, peonies, wisterias, narcissuses, cherry blossoms, Japanese globeflower, wild roses, rhododendron, dandelion, gardenia fruit, and a type of Japanese aster, are expressed realistically with musen shippo(wireless cloisonné). Among the flowers are wild birds such as blue-and-white flycatchers, Daurian redstarts, and waterfowls, expressed in the waterside scene on the back side.(「Flowers of Felicitations」2019)

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Title/Name Pair of cloisonné vases with design of flowers and birds on blue ground
Other Title/
Name
Artist/
Creator
Shippo Company
Period/Era Meiji period
Century
Quantity pair of vases
Dimensions
Material/
Technique
cloisonné
Signature/
Inscriptions
Accessories/
Contents
Country/
Origin
Excavation
Site
Related
Place
Aichi Aichi Tokyo
Provenance
Collection
No.
SZK002650
Category CraftsCloisonné Enamels
Cultural
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Pair of cloisonné vases with design of flowers and birds on blue ground

Pair of cloisonné vases with design of flowers and birds on blue ground

A large vase created to decorate the Chigusa-no-ma hall of the Meiji Palace, which was completed in 1889. Various flowers mainly of the early summer, such as cotton roses, lilies, peonies, wisterias, narcissuses, cherry blossoms, Japanese globeflower, wild roses, rhododendron, dandelion, gardenia fruit, and a type of Japanese aster, are expressed realistically with musen shippo(wireless cloisonné). Among the flowers are wild birds such as blue-and-white flycatchers, Daurian redstarts, and waterfowls, expressed in the waterside scene on the back side.(「Flowers of Felicitations」2019)