A SMALL JAPANESE CLOISONNE VASE

A SMALL AND UNUSUAL JAPANESE CLOISONNE VASE
MEIJI ERA, 19TH/20TH CENTURY

The baluster body with a short everted rim, decorated with a continuous design of many flowers and a large maple tree by a stream, a band of minute butterflies fluttering around the neck; all in colourful enamels on the dark midnight-blue ground; the water rendered in translucent, bright blue ginbari, 9.2cm.