A partial plique a jour bowl, finely worked in silver wire and transluscent enamel with pink and yellow lillies and floating leaves on a graduated pale grey to blue ground, applied with silver rims, stamped jun gin

Signed in silver wire with the seal of Gonda Hirosuke

Diameter 21.5cm

With original fitted wood presentation box

Meiji period, circa 1910

Provenance:
From the collection of a Scandinavian nobleman, who had a long diplomatic career starting, in the 1920s as a young attache in China, later on as ambassador in China.

For similar bowl see Harn Museum of Art, Object Number 2005.8

£11,000

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