A cloisonné enamel vase with dragon | Sealed Kume (Kumeno Teitaro, 1865-1939) | Meiji period, late 19th century

Property from the John and Muriel Okladek Collection
A cloisonné enamel vase with dragon
Sealed Kume (Kumeno Teitaro, 1865-1939)
Meiji period, late 19th century

the short-footed spherical vase with tall, everted neck and foliate rim, decorated in variously coloured translucent enamels, depicting a dragon among smoke, flames nd crashing waves on a silver foil hammered ground, the interior decorated with swirling clouds on a translucent intense blue ground, the base sealed Kume (Kumeno Teitaro, 1865-1939)
23 cm., 9 in. high

Condition Report:
Slight firing stress cracks to the underside of the silvered rim, and collection number GHH4623 inscribed to base.

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