Vase with dragon amid waves
On display
Details
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Title
Vase with dragon amid waves
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Artist/maker
Kumeno Teitaro (1865 - 1939) -
Associated place
Japan (place of creation) -
Date
c. 1905 -
Material and technique
gold, with cloisonné enamel; metal collar, probably shakudō
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
21.6 cm (height)
4 cm (diameter) -
No. of items
1
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Credit line
Purchased with the assistance of the Story Fund, 1999.
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Museum location
Second floor | Gallery 36 | Japan from 1850 -
Museum department
Eastern Art
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Accession no.
EA1999.104
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Catalogue text
Tall, slender vase with trumpet mouth. A gold dragon amid swirling waves encircles the body of green and pink enamels. A collar around the base of the neck incorporates the pearl, chased by the dragon. Stamped seal; Kume.
A tour de force of the later cloisonné techniques, this sculptural vase in gold and graded colour enamels has a pair now in a private collection. This is almost a culmination point in the making of cloisonné, it could hardly get further from its origins than this. Unusually, this vase was made in two pieces, with a collar around the neck as a join.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
shakudō
Further reading
Impey, Oliver, and Joyce Seaman, Japanese Decorative Arts of the Meiji Period 1868-1912, Ashmolean Handbooks (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2005), no. 41 on p. 86, p. 8, illus. pp. 86-87
