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Vase

c.1960-90 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

The shotai-jippo vase has an applied chrome-plated rim and base plate. It is decorated with a silver yusen design of peony, gentian, convolvulus and chrysanthemum in varying shades of lightly shaded translucent green-blue enamels on a similarly toned translucent green enamel ground. There are silver yusen geometric patterns around both the rim and base. Very similar pieces were still being produced in Nagoya and sold through the Inaba Company of Kyoto until the late 1990s (and illustrated in brochures of that period).


Object details

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Object type
Parts
This object consists of 2 parts.

  • Stand
  • Vase
Materials and techniques
A cloisonné enamelled vase decorated using the <i>shotai-jippo, a</i> technique where the metal body is dissolved after firing and polishing. The vase has an applied chrome-plated rim and base-plate.
Brief description
Cloisonné enamel vase decorated with chrysanthemums, unsigned, Nagoya, Japan, c.1960-90
Physical description
Cloisonné enamel vase decorated with chrysanthemums. The shotai-jippo vase (a technique where the metal body is dissolved after firing and polishing) has an applied chrome-plated rim and base-plate.
Dimensions
  • Height: 13cm
  • Width: 9cm
Content description
peony, chrysanthemum
Credit line
Given by Edwin Davies
Summary
The shotai-jippo vase has an applied chrome-plated rim and base plate. It is decorated with a silver yusen design of peony, gentian, convolvulus and chrysanthemum in varying shades of lightly shaded translucent green-blue enamels on a similarly toned translucent green enamel ground. There are silver yusen geometric patterns around both the rim and base. Very similar pieces were still being produced in Nagoya and sold through the Inaba Company of Kyoto until the late 1990s (and illustrated in brochures of that period).
Bibliographic reference
Japanese Cloisonne Irvine, Gregory. Japanese Cloisonné. (London:V&A Publications, 2006), p. 71
Other number
ED 250 - Edwin Davies collection number
Collection
Accession number
FE.31:1, 2-2011

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Record createdFebruary 9, 2011
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