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Baluster vase with magnolias
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Details
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- Date
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c. 1900
Meiji Period (1868 - 1912)
- Artist/maker
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attributed to Gonda Hirosuke (1865 - 1937) (enameller)
- Material and technique
- copper, inlaid with silver wire cloisonné enamel
- Dimensions
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34.9 cm (height)
16 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, 1994.
- Accession no.
- EA1994.127
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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. 42 on p. 88, illus. p. 89
Impey, Oliver, ‘Reflections upon the Arts and Crafts of Meiji Period Japan with Reference to the Collection of the Ashmolean Museum’, Oriental Art, 42/3, (Autumn 1996), p. 16, illus. p. 16 fig. 15
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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- currently in research collection
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Japanese Decorative Arts of the Meiji Period
Cloisonné enamel baluster vase with a large spray of purple, pink and white magnolias on a buff ground.
This vase is almost identical to a pair exhibited by Gonda Hirosuke in 1900 at the Exposition Internationale in Paris, and illustrated in the catalogue (unnumbered and unpaginated) allowing us to be certain of our attribution. The conformation of the design to the shape demonstrates that not all Japanese crafts deserved the slating they recieved at the exhibition (see the Kinkōzan vase, [EA1997.41]).
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