A JAPANESE CLOISONNE VASE WITH BUTTERFLIES

A JAPANESE CLOISONNE VASE WITH BUTTERFLIES
MEIJI ERA, 19TH/20TH CENTURY

The baluster body raised on a short foot and with a flared neck, delicately decorated with five butterflies fluttering on the dark midnight-blue ground, the insects rendered in colourful enamels and silver wires; with bands of triangular lappets above the foot and under the rim, 9.5cm.

Provenance: from an English private collection, London.