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A CLOISONNÉ ENAMEL BOTTLE
MEIJI PERIOD (LATE 19TH CENTURY), SIGNED KYOTO NAMIKAWA (WORKSHOP OF NAMIKAWA YASUYUKI; 1845-1927)
The double-gourd bottle worked in silver wire and particially unwired, 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
7 3/8 in. (18.7 cm.) high

Provenance

Acquired by the current owner’s grandfather

Quoted from the lot page, © Christie's. Christie's, Japanese and Korean Art, 2024-03-19, lot 140 ↗