Vase
c.1920-40 (made)
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The copper body of the vase has an applied silver rim and a silver base plate with the jungin mark. The matt brown ground is decorated with a stylised silver yusen and moriage arrangement of scrolling thistles and leaves in shades of brown, purple and white enamel. The interior has a matt-green counter-enamel, which is also applied to the interior of the base plate. This has been inlaid with the gold yusen mark of the Ando Company. Ando cloisonné is often extremely difficult to date, compounded by the fact that the Company's records are rather sparse. The style of the decoration, which has a rather Art Deco feeling to it, suggests a date from the period 1920-40. However, since this style of decoration continued to be used until at least the 1960s, a later date cannot be ruled out.
Object details
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| Parts | This object consists of 3 parts.
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| Materials and techniques | Cloisonné enamel vase with the mark of the Ando Company. The thistle deign is in <i>yusen</i> (with wires technique) and <i>moriage</i> (layers of enamel in relief ). |
| Brief description | Cloisonné enamel vase with a scrolling thistle design, mark of the Ando Company, Nagoya, Japan, c.1920-40. |
| Physical description | Cloisonné enamel vase with a scrolling thistle design. This dish has a copper body with an applied silver rim and silver base plate. |
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| Content description | thistle |
| Marks and inscriptions | (Mark of the Ando Company) |
| Credit line | Given by Edwin Davies |
| Summary | The copper body of the vase has an applied silver rim and a silver base plate with the jungin mark. The matt brown ground is decorated with a stylised silver yusen and moriage arrangement of scrolling thistles and leaves in shades of brown, purple and white enamel. The interior has a matt-green counter-enamel, which is also applied to the interior of the base plate. This has been inlaid with the gold yusen mark of the Ando Company. Ando cloisonné is often extremely difficult to date, compounded by the fact that the Company's records are rather sparse. The style of the decoration, which has a rather Art Deco feeling to it, suggests a date from the period 1920-40. However, since this style of decoration continued to be used until at least the 1960s, a later date cannot be ruled out. |
| Bibliographic reference | Japanese Cloisonne
Irvine, Gregory. Japanese Cloisonné. (London:V&A Publications, 2006), p. 78 |
| Other number | ED 259 - Edwin Davies collection number |
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| Accession number | FE.36:1 to 3-2011 |
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| Record created | February 16, 2011 |
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