Eighteen cloisonné-enamel vessels


20th centuryEach worked in silver wire: comprising a pair of rectangular vases decorated with an bird perched on flowering plum on a midnight-blue ground, each 15cm high; the third similarly decorated, 15.5cm high; another pair of baluster vases decorated with three standing red-crested cranes on a blue ground, each 18cm high; the sixth an ovoid vase decorated with a dragon coiled around the red ground, 12.7cm high; a pair of slender pear-shaped vases decorated with chrysanthemums on a marine-blue ground, each 17.5cm high; the ninth a baluster vase with white buds among grass above shield-shaped panels enclosing ho-o and writhing dragons, on a reddish-brown ground flecked with aventurine, signed on the base with the mark of Ando Jubei, 18cm high; another pair of small baluster vases similarly decorated on a green ground flecked with aventurine, each 9cm high; the twelfth a yellow vase with vertical lines on the tall neck, signed in silver wire on the base with the mark of Ando Jubei, 22.2cm high, with a tomobako wooden storage box; another pair each decorated with a flying kingfisher and signed on the base with the mark of Adachi Kinjiro, each 23.3cm high; two globular koro decorated with repeated foliate motifs, one signed Kohara on the base, each approx., 12cm high; the seventeenth a small hexagonal vase decorated with auspicious objects,10.1cm high; the last probably not Japanese a miniature white-ground enamel vase, stamped 935 on the base, 7cm high.(21).