Japanese cloisonné vase signed Kinunken Inaba Studio Meiji period

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.