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Baluster vase with chrysanthemums
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- Associated place
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Asia › Japan › Honshū › Aichi prefecture › Nagoya (place of creation)
- Date
- 1900 - 1910
- Material and technique
- plique-à-jour cloisonné enamel; silver mounts
- Dimensions
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12.3 cm (height)
7.6 cm (diameter)
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container › vessel › vase › baluster vase
- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Purchased with the assistance of the Story Fund, 1990.
- Accession no.
- EA1990.5
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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. 43 on p. 90, pp. 8 & 74, illus. p. 91
Glossary (2)
cloisonné, plique-à-jour
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cloisonné
Decorative technique in which wires are attached to a metal body and coloured enamels are applied between the wires.
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plique-à-jour
Type of cloisonné enamel in which the metal supporting body has been removed using acid.
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
Plique-à-jour baluster-shaped vase decorated with chrysanthemums in coloured enamels against a translucent pale green background. The base and the upper rim mounted in silver.
Cloisonné enamel from which the supporting background had been removed, thus rendering it transparent, is called plique-à-jour, (shōtai-jippō in Japanese). It is extremely fragile. This very difficult technique was invented in France and first came to the notice of the Japanese enamellers when it was seen at the Paris Exposition in 1900 by Andō Jūbei. He bought some pieces by Fernand Thesmar, and it was from these that Kawade Shibatarō is said to have learned the technique. The skill spread, and other makers were soon producing it, most notably Hattori Tadasaburō, but we are unable to attribute this unsigned piece.
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