A Fine Blue Ground Cloisonné 'Chrysanthemum' Vase

A Fine Blue Ground Cloisonné 'Chrysanthemum' Vase

BY NAMIKAWA YASUYUKI OF KYOTO (1845-1927), LATE 19TH/EARLY 20TH CENTURY

of slender form, worked in silver wire and colored enamels with chrysanthemums against a purplish blue ground, the rims silver, the underside signed on a silver tablet Kyoto Namikawa.
Height 4 1/8 in., 10.5 cm.
Property from the Estate of William Sargent, Duluth, Minnesota Asian Art
The top silver rim is warped downwards, there is a nick to the shoulder and area of loss, the area immediately around it has fractures to the enamels