Honda Yosaburo (Attributed to) - Large cloisonné enamel vase
A large cloisonné enamel vase finely worked in silver wire with four panels, an eagle in flight over waves on an aventurine flecked ground, two winged dragons on a similar ground, a stencil-like design of a sparrow amongst hibiscus on a speckled ochre ground and butterflies, peony and chrysanthemum on a similar ground. The shoulder decorated with precious objects and the neck with dragon and ho-o panels, the corners with scrolling foliage on a translucent red ground.
Unsigned
Height 61.3 cm
Meiji period, circa 1900
For a pair of smaller vases by Honda with similar decoration see The Modern Era of Shippo - Japanese Cloisonné: The Museum of the Imperial Collections, Sanomaru Shozokan no.5
For a bowl with a similar dragon by Honda see Meiji no Shippo: Flowers of Modern Craft, 2008 no. 036
£SOLD
