ATTRIBUTED TO HATTORI TADASABURO, SIGNED ON A SILVER TABLET HATTORI, MEIJI PERIOD (EARLY 20TH CENTURY)

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A Cloisonné Enamel Vase
Attributed to Hattori Tadasaburo, Signed on a silver tablet hattori, Meiji period (early 20th century)
The elegant cylindrical vase with everted neck, worked in silver wire and moriage in various shades of green and pale blue enamels with bamboo, the upper interior rim in pale green enamel, silver rims, fitted gilt copper liner, carved wood stand and fitted wood storage box
24.9cm. high (not including stand)

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Lot Essay

For a pair of vases depicting ginko trees using a similar technique see Oliver Impey and Malcolm Fairley (eds.), The Nasser D. Khalili Collection of Japanese Art, vol. 3, Enamel, (London, 1994), cat. no. 68.

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