Japanese pair cloisonné enamel vases signed Ota Tameshirō Meiji period

Japanese pair of cloisonné enamel vases worked in silver wire decorated with mirror-image of two writhing dragons on a dark blue ground, the elongated necks with bands of stylised droplets motifs, the base stamped with the Ota Tameshirō mark, Meiji period (1868-1912).

In Japan the dragon (tatsu 辰) is a water deity symbolic of power, wealth and prosperity and is also one of the twelve Zodiac signs.

Reference: ‘The Art of Japanese Cloisonné Enamel: History, Techniques and Artists, 1600 to the Present’, by Frederich T. Schneider, North Carolina, 2010, pg. 253 no. 163.  

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