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Japanese cloisonné enamel vase worked in silver wire with rooster and hen among irises, peonies, chrysanthemums and wisteria branches on a dark blue ground, bearing the paulownia mon seal 五三桐 (go-san kiri), Meiji period 1868-1912.
The rooster (tori 酉) is the tenth symbol of the Japanese Zodiac and was thought to embody courage, loyalty, literary accomplishment and virtue.
