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A Cloisonné Enamel Bottle
Meiji period (circa 1890), signed Kyoto Namikawa [workshop of Namikawa Yasuyuki, 1845-1927]
The double-gourd bottle worked in silver wire and polychrome enamels with butterflies and wisteria against a mottled brown and black ground, the shoulder designed with bees, wisteria and foliate scroll on a mustard-yellow ground, the neck with floral lozenges on black and the foot ringed with a band of irises; mounts silver; foot incised with the initials M.A.
7½in. (19cm.) high
Quoted from the lot page, © Christie's. Christie's, Japanese and Korean Art, 2005-09-22, lot 266 ↗
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