Pair of Vases
ca. 1900-10 (made)
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The copper bodies of the vases have applied silver rims, silver-gilt inner neck-rings and silver base plates. Each vase has a design of Little Egrets (Egretta garzetta) in musen and white and grey low-relief moriage (the edges of the egrets are raised above the body of the vases). The ground is of a flambé-style enamel. The two-character mark Hattori has been engraved directly into the silver-gilt interior of the base. The tentative nature of the moriage on these vases may well represent one of the first steps in the development of this technique by Hattori, to whom its invention is often credited.
Object details
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| Parts | This object consists of 2 parts.
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| Materials and techniques | Cloisonné enamel design in both <i>muse</i><i>n</i> (no wires) and <i>moriage</i> (layers of enamel in relief). |
| Brief description | Pair of cloisonné enamel vases decorated with a little egrets, mark of Hattori Tadasaburo, Nagoya, Japan, c.1900-10. |
| Physical description | Pair of vases with design of white and grey little egrets, in relief on a ground of flambé-style enamel. Both with the mark of Hattori Tadasaburo. |
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| Content description | egrets |
| Marks and inscriptions | (Both with the mark of Hattori Tadasaburo) |
| Credit line | Given by Edwin Davies |
| Summary | The copper bodies of the vases have applied silver rims, silver-gilt inner neck-rings and silver base plates. Each vase has a design of Little Egrets (Egretta garzetta) in musen and white and grey low-relief moriage (the edges of the egrets are raised above the body of the vases). The ground is of a flambé-style enamel. The two-character mark Hattori has been engraved directly into the silver-gilt interior of the base. The tentative nature of the moriage on these vases may well represent one of the first steps in the development of this technique by Hattori, to whom its invention is often credited. |
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| Other number | ED 309 - Edwin Davies collection number |
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| Accession number | FE.72:1, 2-2011 |
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| Record created | February 16, 2011 |
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