Namikawa Style: A Large Japanese Silver Wire Cloisonné Enamel Vase of tapered, cylindrical form on a splayed foot, with steep shoulder rising to a cylindrical neck and everted mouth, decorated on the midnight blue ground with sparrows in the branches of flowering prunus trees, all in a multitude of colours, the foot and neck with lappet and diaper bands, silver mount to rim and foot, impressed mark to foot rim mount Silver, height 36.4cms, Meiji-Taisho Era