14th Jun, 2024 10:00
Fine Japanese Art
120
KAWANO YOSHITARO: A SUPERB HEXAGONAL MIDNIGHT-BLUE CLOISONNÉ VASE WITH WISTERIA AND WILDFLOWERS
Sold for €2,600
including Buyer's Premium
By Kawano Yoshitaro, signed Kawano sei
Japan, Meiji period (1868-1912)
Of hexagonal shape, applied with silver rims, standing on a ringed foot with rounded sides rising to an arched shoulder surmounted by a gently flaring neck. The body is decorated in polychrome enamels with tall wisteria vines, their elegant blue flowers suspending from the curling branches, above a small stream worked in ginbari, surrounded by wildflowers among which are lilies, irises, bell flowers, kiku (chrysanthemum), and peony flowers. Signed to the base KAWANO sei [made by Kawano].
HEIGHT 15.5 cm
WEIGHT 230 g
Condition: Repair to a section by the shoulder with some associated spraying. Otherwise good condition with minor typical wear.
Provenance: From an old Austrian private collection.
Kawano Yoshitaro (born 1853) was an established cloisonné artist who founded his own workshop in Yokohama in 1875. Yoshitaro’s work and that of his company have been candidates for over 40 years at the World Exhibition, and were exhibited in the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago. In 1900 he was awarded the Gold Medal at The Exposition Universelle of 1900 in Paris, France. In 1904 he exhibited flower vases and bowls at Louisiana Purchase Exposition in Saint Louis, USA. A year later he was awarded the Gold Medal at the Liège International in Liège, Belgium. Another Gold Medal was awarded to him in 1910, at the Japan-British Exhibition in London, Great Britain. The company was handed over to his son ca. 1918, and under his leadership the company grew. However, the company ceased production at the beginning of WWII, and never recovered.
Auction comparison:
Compare a related hexagonal cloisonné vase decorated with a scenic pond, signed Murase zo, at Christie’s, The Avo Krikorian Collection, 19 February 2007, Geneva, lot 191 (sold for CHF 31,200).
By Kawano Yoshitaro, signed Kawano sei
Japan, Meiji period (1868-1912)
Of hexagonal shape, applied with silver rims, standing on a ringed foot with rounded sides rising to an arched shoulder surmounted by a gently flaring neck. The body is decorated in polychrome enamels with tall wisteria vines, their elegant blue flowers suspending from the curling branches, above a small stream worked in ginbari, surrounded by wildflowers among which are lilies, irises, bell flowers, kiku (chrysanthemum), and peony flowers. Signed to the base KAWANO sei [made by Kawano].
HEIGHT 15.5 cm
WEIGHT 230 g
Condition: Repair to a section by the shoulder with some associated spraying. Otherwise good condition with minor typical wear.
Provenance: From an old Austrian private collection.
Kawano Yoshitaro (born 1853) was an established cloisonné artist who founded his own workshop in Yokohama in 1875. Yoshitaro’s work and that of his company have been candidates for over 40 years at the World Exhibition, and were exhibited in the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago. In 1900 he was awarded the Gold Medal at The Exposition Universelle of 1900 in Paris, France. In 1904 he exhibited flower vases and bowls at Louisiana Purchase Exposition in Saint Louis, USA. A year later he was awarded the Gold Medal at the Liège International in Liège, Belgium. Another Gold Medal was awarded to him in 1910, at the Japan-British Exhibition in London, Great Britain. The company was handed over to his son ca. 1918, and under his leadership the company grew. However, the company ceased production at the beginning of WWII, and never recovered.
Auction comparison:
Compare a related hexagonal cloisonné vase decorated with a scenic pond, signed Murase zo, at Christie’s, The Avo Krikorian Collection, 19 February 2007, Geneva, lot 191 (sold for CHF 31,200).
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