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Bowl

c.1912-26 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

This elegant shotai-jippo bowl has an applied chrome-plated rim and foot-edges. It is decorated with a silver yusen design of peony, convolvulus, rose, gentian and chrysanthemum in polychrome shaded enamels on a pale translucent green enamel ground. Under the rim is a delicate trailing pattern of green leaves in silver yusen enamels. The bowl has a relatively light body to which three small feet have been attached. Similar pieces were still being produced in Nagoya and sold through the Inaba Company of Kyoto until the late 1990s. See Nihon no Bijutsu p.95, ill. 13 for an almost identical bowl by Kato Hideo.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Parts
This object consists of 2 parts.

  • Stand
  • Bowl
Materials and techniques
Cloisonné enamel bowl with flowers in <i>shotai-jippo </i>(a technique whereby the metal body of the vessel is dissolved after enamelling), with an applied chrome-plated rim and foot-edges.
Brief description
Cloisonné enamel bowl decorated with flowers, Nagoya, Japan, c.1912-26.
Physical description
Cloisonné enamel bowl with flowers in shotai-jippo (a technique whereby the metal body of the vessel is dissolved after enamelling), with an applied chrome-plated rim and foot-edges.
Dimensions
  • Height: 7.5cm
  • At rim width: 13.5cm
Content description
Flowers.
Credit line
Given by Edwin Davies
Summary
This elegant shotai-jippo bowl has an applied chrome-plated rim and foot-edges. It is decorated with a silver yusen design of peony, convolvulus, rose, gentian and chrysanthemum in polychrome shaded enamels on a pale translucent green enamel ground. Under the rim is a delicate trailing pattern of green leaves in silver yusen enamels. The bowl has a relatively light body to which three small feet have been attached. Similar pieces were still being produced in Nagoya and sold through the Inaba Company of Kyoto until the late 1990s. See Nihon no Bijutsu p.95, ill. 13 for an almost identical bowl by Kato Hideo.
Bibliographic references
  • Japanese cloisonne Irvine, Gregory. Japanese Cloisonné. (London:V&A Publications, 2006), p.64
  • Japanese Cloisonne Enamels Irvine, Gregory. Japanese Cloisonné Enamels. (London: V&A Publishing, 2011). pl.49.
Other number
ED 239 - Edwin Davies collection number
Collection
Accession number
FE.22:1, 2-2011

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Record createdFebruary 9, 2011
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