Japanese cloisonné vase with oranges signed Andō Jūbei Shōwa period

Japanese cloisonné enamel vase of baluster shape finely worked in silver wire decorated with leafy branches laden with summer oranges (natsumikan) on a graduated pink colour ground, applied with silver mounts and fitted wood stand. The foot rim marked Jungin 純 銀 (pure silver) and the base with the silver yūsen mark of Andō Jūbei 安藤重兵衛, early Shōwa period.

The tomobako wood storage box inscribed Daidai shippo kabin, zotei soritsu sanjunen kinen, Aichi Ginko 橙七宝花瓶 贈呈 創⽴三⼗年記念 愛 知銀⾏(cloisonné vase with oranges, a gift to celebrate the 30th anniversary founding of Aichi Bank). The Aichi Bank was founded in 1910 and was located where the Andō cloisonné company was based in the Aichi Prefecture.

The Andō Cloisonné Company was founded in 1880 by Maeda Matsukichi 前⽥松吉 who was later joined by Andō Juzaburo known as Andō Jūbei I 安藤重兵衛 (1876-1953). In 1891 and 1892 the Imperial Household purchased several pieces from the company.
During the Meiji (1868-1912) and Taishō (1912-1926) periods, they were awarded medals at many Expositions: in 1893 at the World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago, in 1900 at the Exposition Universelle in Paris, in 1901 at the Glasgow International Exhibition, in 1904 at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis, in 1910 at the London Japan-British Exhibition and in 1926 at the Sesqui-Centennial International Exposition in Philadelphia.

Reference: ‘The Art of Japanese Cloisonné Enamel: History, Techniques and Artists, 1600 to the Present’, by Frederich T. Schneider, North Carolina, 2010, pg. 241 no.4.

'Meiji no Takara 明治の宝 Treasures of Imperial Japan, the Nasser D. Khalili Collection', The Kibo Foundation 1995, Enamel Vol. III, no. 53.

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