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  Cloisonné Hi-kite shoji door handles. Meiji period – 1868-1912

  Cloisonné Hi-kite shoji door handles. Meiji period - 1868-1912. Exceptional set of Hi-Kite, very rare cloisonné example. 11cm x 10cm each max.
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  Cloisonné Hi-kite shoji door handles. Meiji period – 1868-1912

  Cloisonné Hi-kite shoji door handles. Meiji period - 1868-1912. Exceptional set of Hi-Kite, very rare cloisonné example featuring crows. 9cm each.
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  Cloisonné Hi-kite shoji door handles

  Cloisonné Hi-kite shoji door handles. Meiji period - 1868-1912. Exceptional set of Hi-Kite, very rare cloisonné example featuring moths. 11.5cm x 7.5cm each.
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  Imperial Gold wire cloisonne vase

  Attributed to Namikawa Yasuyuki covered vase, Meiji period - 1868-1912. 13.5cm tall Although unsigned the Quality of the wire work is indicative of Namikawa Yasuyki, It should also be noted that the designs are extremely similar to those by Nakahara Tessen who worked with Yasuyuki. As a final note the inclusion of both Kikumon (imperial mon) and Kirimon narrows the attribution significantly.
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  Namikawa Yasuyuki covered vase

  Namikawa Yasuyuki small covered vase, Meiji period - 1868-1912. 10.5cm tall
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  Namikawa Sosuke (Sousuke) vase Meiji – 1868-1912

  Very fine and rare Namikawa Sosuke vase (Sousuke) vase in grey blush tones with flowers in musen and yusen shippou.
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  Unsigned Meiji Period Cloisonne Box (kougo)

  Extremely fine cliosonne box, the silver wire work is comparable with Namikawa Yasuyuki are is the counter enamels, there were very few artists capable of such fine coisonne workmanship, as such attribution is impossible, although Hayashi Kodenji, Inaba nanaho (Kin Unken) to name a few are worthy of further study.
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  Meiji Period

  Namikawa Yasuyuki Vase 17.5cm Meiji period.

  Namikawa Yasuyuki Vase 17.5cm Meiji period. A former samurai, Namikawa Yasuyuki started work as an artist around 1868, working for the Kyoto Cloisonné Company from 1871 to 1874 and eventually forming his own company. He gave tours of his workshop, Namikawa would show the many stages of his production process, including fourteen polishing stones of different roughness that were used in sequence.
  
  Along with Namikawa Sōsuke, he was one of only two cloisonné artists ever to be appointed Imperial court Artists. After the Meiji era, foreign demand for Japanese art tailed off. Namikawa Yasuyuki retired in 1919[ and his workshop closed in 1923.
  
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  Meiji Period, Vase

  Hayashi Kodenji Silver body hand-hammered moriage cloisonne Vase

  Hayashi Kodenji I 1831-1915 considered a pioneer of the early Meiji period cloisonne, based in Nagoya,

   

  Hayashi Kodenji helped launch Japanese Cloisonne enamel production to the world stage, it is recorded that Kodenji sought out foreign traders in Yokohama in hope to exhibit at the Paris expositions of 1867 & 1878 and Vienna 1873.

   

  Japanese Cloisonne enamels were receiving glowing acclaim and winning medals. Hayashi joined other most famous makers such as Namikawa Yasayuki and Namikawa Sosuke, the trio going on to win numerous gold medals at the various expositions of the period.
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  Pair of Cloisonne vases Meiji Period – 1868-1912

  Pair of Cloisonne vases attributed to Honda. Meiji Period - 1868-1912. Profusely decorated in Gilt wire with stylised dragon marks to base. 22cm tall.
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  Musen cloisonne vase. Meiji Period – 1868-1912

  Unsigned Nagare Gusare cloisonne vase. Meiji Period - 1868-1912 Large musen shippou vase attributed to Kawade Shibataro. 31.5cm tall.
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  Sakura cloisonne vase Meiji Period – 1868-1912

  Musen and Yusen shippou vase with cherry blossom. 31.5cm tall. The vase is unsigned, it is very thickly enamelled with blue brown counter enamels which are very much in the manner of Namikawa Sousuke.