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Lot 217

A pair of rectangular lobed cloisonné-enamel vases
Meiji era (1868-1912), late 19th/early 20th century

16 May 2019, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

£3,000 - £5,000

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A pair of rectangular lobed cloisonné-enamel vases

Meiji era (1868-1912), late 19th/early 20th century
Each vase worked in silver and gilt wire with complementary mirror-image designs of (1) A goose about to feed its nest of young resting beside a rose bush on a light blue ground (2) An eagle swooping in towards its prey flying among flowering shrubs on a peach ground (3) A pair of doves standing beneath shidare sakura (weeping cherry-blossom) branches on a light blue ground and (4) A long-tailed parrot perched on flowering branches trailing from a suspended basket of ikebana, the waisted neck decorated with a dragon fish and the foot with stylised foliate motifs and crest; each vase unsigned. Each vase 32.5cm (12¾in) high. (2).

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