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Japanese Decorative Arts of the Meiji Period

A catalogue of the Ashmolean’s Japanese decorative arts from the Meiji period (1868-1912), by Oliver Impey and Joyce Seaman (published Oxford, 2005).

Japanese Decorative Arts of the Meiji Period 1868-1912 by Oliver Impey and Joyce Seaman

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Baluster vase with poppies and tree peonies

  • Literature notes

    Baluster vase in silver, shibuichi, and cloisonné enamel. The neck in silver with petal-shapes on the shoulder, the body decorated with tree peonies in relief in cloisonné enamel. Engraved signature on exterior: Hōryūsai Kōichi with gold inlaid kakihan and on the base: Takasaki Seizō.

    Details of the life of Takasaki Kōichi, appear to be unknown; however there exists a groups of vases, usually of bronze and silver, and encrusted with shippō (cloisonné) inlays in which there is a silver neck that either simulates dripping of a liquid over the bronze or fuses into the bronze in a careful pattern, some of which are signed Takasaki Kōichi or Hōryūsai Kōichi (as here), which can all be attributed to Kōichi. In the Paris Exposition of 1900, Takasaki Kōichi exhibited a pair of silver vases decorated with peonies and poppies in cloisonné enamel.
  • Details

    Associated place
    Asia Japan (place of creation)
    Date
    1890s
    Artist/maker
    Takasaki Kōichi (active c. 1900)
    Material and technique
    bronze, overlaid with shibuichi, and with cloisonné enamel; neck overlaid with silver
    Dimensions
    17.8 cm (height)
    8.2 cm (diameter)
    at base 4.7 cm (diameter)
    Material index
    Technique index
    Object type index
    No. of items
    1
    Credit line
    Purchased with the assistance of the Story Fund, 1994.
    Accession no.
    EA1994.109
  • Further reading

    Impey, Oliver, and Joyce Seaman, Japanese Decorative Arts of the Meiji Period 1868-1912, Ashmolean Handbooks (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2005), no. 26 on p. 56, illus. pp. 56-57

Glossary (2)

cloisonné, shibuichi

  • cloisonné

    Decorative technique in which wires are attached to a metal body and coloured enamels are applied between the wires.

  • shibuichi

    alloy of copper and silver, patinated to a dull grey-green colour

Location

    • Second floor | Room 36 | Japan

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Publications online

  • Japanese Decorative Arts of the Meiji Period 1868-1912 by Oliver Impey and Joyce Seaman

    Japanese Decorative Arts of the Meiji Period

    Baluster vase in silver, shibuichi, and cloisonné enamel. The neck in silver with petal-shapes on the shoulder, the body decorated with tree peonies in relief in cloisonné enamel. Engraved signature on exterior: Hōryūsai Kōichi with gold inlaid kakihan and on the base: Takasaki Seizō.

    Details of the life of Takasaki Kōichi, appear to be unknown; however there exists a groups of vases, usually of bronze and silver, and encrusted with shippō (cloisonné) inlays in which there is a silver neck that either simulates dripping of a liquid over the bronze or fuses into the bronze in a careful pattern, some of which are signed Takasaki Kōichi or Hōryūsai Kōichi (as here), which can all be attributed to Kōichi. In the Paris Exposition of 1900, Takasaki Kōichi exhibited a pair of silver vases decorated with peonies and poppies in cloisonné enamel.
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