Japanese pair of cloisonné enamel vases signed Itō Soemon Meiji period
Japanese pair of cloisonné enamel vases signed Itō Soemon Meiji period
Japanese pair of cloisonné enamel vases signed Itō Soemon Meiji period
Japanese pair of cloisonné enamel vases signed Itō Soemon Meiji period
Japanese pair of cloisonné enamel vases signed Itō Soemon Meiji period
Japanese pair of cloisonné enamel vases signed Itō Soemon Meiji period
Japanese pair of cloisonné enamel vases signed Itō Soemon Meiji period
Japanese pair of cloisonné enamel vases signed Itō Soemon Meiji period
Japanese pair of cloisonné enamel vases signed Itō Soemon Meiji period

Japanese pair of cloisonné enamel vases signed Itō Soemon Meiji period

Code: 10222

Dimensions:

W: 6cm (2.4")H: 12.5cm (4.9")

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Japanese pair of cloisonné enamel vases finely worked in silver wires with a sparrow in flight and the other sparrow perched on hibiscus branches in bloom, on a dark blue ground applied with copper gilt mounts signed with the Itō Soemon mark, Meiji period (1868-1912).

The artist won a silver medal at the Chicago Exposition in  1893 and at the St. Louis Exposition in 1904 for his cloisonne’ work. 

Reference: ‘The Art of Japanese Cloisonné Enamel: History, Techniques and Artists, 1600 to the Present’, by Frederich T. Schneider, North Carolina, 2010, pg.247, no. 86.

 

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