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Baluster vase with stylized flowers
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Details
- Associated place
- Date
- 1880 - 1885
- Artist/maker
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attributed to Namikawa Sōsuke (1847 - 1910)
- Associated people
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Michael Tomkinson (1841 - 1921) (owner)
- Material and technique
- copper, with cloisonné enamel; copper rim and baseplate
- Dimensions
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16 cm (height)
9.5 cm (diameter)
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- Technique index
- Object type index
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container › vessel › vase › baluster vase
- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Purchased with the assistance of the Story Fund, 1997.
- Accession no.
- EA1997.209
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Further reading
Impey, Oliver, and Joyce Seaman, Japanese Decorative Arts of the Meiji Period 1868-1912, Ashmolean Handbooks (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2005), no. 45 on p. 94, illus. p. 95
Glossary
cloisonné
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cloisonné
Decorative technique in which wires are attached to a metal body and coloured enamels are applied between the wires.
Location
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Second floor | Room 36 | Japan
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Second floor | Room 36 | Japan
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Japanese Decorative Arts of the Meiji Period
Baluster shaped vase with an overall design of stylised flowers against a white ground.
An unusual pattern-making design by Sōsuke who normally would have used such patterns only for borders. This is early for a white ground and it may well have been experimental.
Formerly in the collection of Michael Tomkinson (label on base), and included in 'A Japanese Collection, in two volumes made by Michaeol Tomkinson' and published in 1898, no. E 20.
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