A Rare and Large Cloisonné Vase

MARK OF THE HAYASHI CHUZO WORKSHOP, MEIJI PERIOD (LATE 19TH CENTURY)

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A Rare and Large Cloisonné Vase
Mark of the Hayashi Chuzo workshop, Meiji Period (late 19th century)
The large octagonal vase with short everted neck worked in various thicknesses of silver wire with an eagle with outstretched wings in a maple tree, at the base of the tree there are numerous flowers including peony, chrysanthemums and grasses, above a band of foliate lappets, the neck with stylised chrysanthemums against scrolling vine, the rim with a band of further flowers bordered by geometric patterns
60cm. high

Lot Essay

For a similar example in the Wyatt-Franke Collection see George Kuwayama, Shippo, the Art of Enamelling in Japan, (Los Angeles, 1987), no.61

Hayashi Chuzo won the silver award at the International Exhibition in Liège in 1905.

For the artist see Fredric T. Schneider, The Art of Japanese Cloisonné Enamel: History, Techniques and Artists, 1600 to the Present, (North Carolina, 2010), p. 66, 244 and 270

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