Baluster vase with magnolias
Details
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Title
Baluster vase with magnolias
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Artist/maker
attributed to Gonda Hirosuke (1865 - 1937) (enameller) -
Associated place
Japan (place of creation) -
Date
c. 1900
Meiji Period (1868 - 1912) -
Material and technique
copper, inlaid with silver wire cloisonné enamel
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
34.9 cm (height)
16 cm (diameter) -
No. of items
1
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Credit line
Purchased with the assistance of the Story Fund, 1994.
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Museum location
Museum department
Eastern Art
Accession no.
EA1994.127
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Catalogue text
Cloisonné enamel baluster vase with a large spray of purple, pink and white magnolias on a buff ground.
This vase is almost identical to a pair exhibited by Gonda Hirosuke in 1900 at the Exposition Internationale in Paris, and illustrated in the catalogue (unnumbered and unpaginated) allowing us to be certain of our attribution. The conformation of the design to the shape demonstrates that not all Japanese crafts deserved the slating they recieved at the exhibition (see the Kinkōzan vase, [EA1997.41]).In: Impey, Oliver, and Joyce Seaman, Japanese Decorative Arts of the Meiji Period 1868-1912, Ashmolean Handbooks (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2005)
Glossary of terms
cloisonné
Further reading
Impey, Oliver, and Joyce Seaman, Japanese Decorative Arts of the Meiji Period 1868-1912, Ashmolean Handbooks (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2005), no. 42 on p. 88, illus. p. 89
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