Property from the John and Muriel Okladek Co▨llection

A cloisonné enamel vase

Meiji period, late 19^th century

the oviform vase with splayed foot and short neck, copper mounts, decorated in coloured cloisonné enamels on a black ground and worked in various thicknesses of silver wire, with butterflies and moths among chrysanthemums heads and scrolling foliage, a band of lappets to the shoulder, with an applied silver tablet to the base with inscribed mark Kyoto Namikawa

22 cm., 8⅞ in. high