Code: 10121
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Japanese cloisonné enamel vase worked in silver and gilt wire with birds perched on branches in bloom, the neck with paulownia flowers on a blue colour ground, signed in a square mark reserve Kin'unken zo 錦雲軒造 (Inaba Nanaho Studio-Kyoto), Meiji period 1868-1912.
Inaba Nanaho under the leadership of Ozaki Kyubei was the second most important studio in Kyoto founded in 1871 using the trade name Kinunken meaning "brocade-cloud-company". During the Meiji (1868-1912) and Taisho (1912-1926) periods, they were awarded medals at many expositions in Vienna 1873, Paris 1878, New Orleans 1884, St. Louis 1904.