Japanese Works of Art - 15th November 2022

Lot 80

A JAPANESE CLOISONNE VASE BY OTA KICHISABURO

Estimate £400 - £600 | Hammer £450

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Description

A JAPANESE CLOISONNE VASE BY OTA KICHISABURO

MEIJI ERA, 19TH OR 20TH CENTURY

The rectangular-section body decorated with two colourful doves perched on a flowering prunus tree, the reverse with further branches on the deep midnight-blue ground; the shoulder with a complex design of lappets enclosing flowers and other formal designs, a band of geometric patterns above the foot and to the neck, the base with an impressed mark reading O Kichi for Ota Kichisaburo, 15.2cm.