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Pedestal Vase

c.1920-40 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

The two-part copper body (bowl and pedestal) has an applied silver rim and silver base plate with the jungin mark. The decoration is of a stylised, Art Deco-influenced band of silver yusen dandelion (tampopo) in low relief moriage green and orange enamel on a speckled dark matt green and brown ground. The foot is decorated with a scrolling band of leaves and silver yusen purple flowers. The counter-enamel is of a similar colour (although not speckled) to the body: this enamel has also been applied to the base, which has the gold yusen mark of the Ando Company. The vase is extremely elegant and simple in both form and design, and would have been equally acceptable in a fashionable Japanese home, many of which had western-style rooms by the 1920s, as in a non-Japanese environment.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Parts
This object consists of 3 parts.

  • Box
  • Stand
  • Pedestal Vase
Materials and techniques
Cloisonné enamel vase decorated with silver <i>yusen (with wire)</i> purple flowers and dandelions. The green and orange enamel is low-relief <i>moriage </i>(layers of enamel in relief).
Brief description
Cloisonné enamel vase decorated with stylised dandelions, mark of the Ando Company, Nagoya, Japan, c.1920-40.
Physical description
Cloisonné enamel vase decorated with stylised dandelions beraing the mark of the Ando Company. The pedestal vase has a copper body (vase and pedestal) with an applied silver rim and silver base-plate with the jungin (pure silver) mark.
Dimensions
  • Height: 20cm
  • Width: 20.5cm
Content description
dandelion, flowers
Marks and inscriptions
(Mark of the Ando Company.)
Credit line
Given by Edwin Davies
Summary
The two-part copper body (bowl and pedestal) has an applied silver rim and silver base plate with the jungin mark. The decoration is of a stylised, Art Deco-influenced band of silver yusen dandelion (tampopo) in low relief moriage green and orange enamel on a speckled dark matt green and brown ground. The foot is decorated with a scrolling band of leaves and silver yusen purple flowers. The counter-enamel is of a similar colour (although not speckled) to the body: this enamel has also been applied to the base, which has the gold yusen mark of the Ando Company. The vase is extremely elegant and simple in both form and design, and would have been equally acceptable in a fashionable Japanese home, many of which had western-style rooms by the 1920s, as in a non-Japanese environment.
Bibliographic references
  • Japanese Cloisonne Irvine, Gregory. Japanese Cloisonné. (London:V&A Publications, 2006), p. 102.
  • Japanese Cloisonne Enamels Irvine, Gregory. Japanese Cloisonné Enamels. (London: V&A Publishing, 2011). pl. 72.
Other number
ED 286 - Edwin Davies collection number
Collection
Accession number
FE.53:1 to 3-2011

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Record createdFebruary 16, 2011
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