Namikawa Yasuyuki (1845-1927)


A fine cloisonné-enamel jar and coverMeiji era (1868-1912), late 19th centuryThe compressed globular jar set on three silver feet and worked in colored enamels and gold and silver wire with a continuous band of interlocking sprays of trailing white and purple wisteria against a black ground, the shoulder and flat cover decorated with dense clusters of flowering chrysanthemum vines and the collar with bands of stylized florets and lozenges, the tripod feet each encircled by chrysanthemum clusters, interior with olive-green enamel, signed on a silver tablet on the underside of the cover Kyoto Namikawa, silver fittings 4 1/2in (11.4cm) high
|For a nearly identical jar with a flat cover in the collection of the Kiyomizu Sannenzaka Museum, Kyoto see Hida Toyoro and others, Namikawa Yasuyuki shippo, Meiji shippo no yuwaku: Tomei na kuro no kansei (Namikawa Yasuyuki and Japanese Cloisonné, The Allure of Meiji Cloisonné: The Aesthetic of Translucent Black), Tokyo, Mainichi Shinbunsha, 2017, cat. no. 40.