NAMIKAWA YASUYUKI (1845-1927) A Rare and Important Faceted Cloisonné-Enamel Incense Burner Meiji era (1868-1912), circa 1895Property of various ownersNAMIKAWA YASUYUKI (1845-1927)A Rare and Important Faceted Cloisonné-Enamel Incense Burner Meiji era (1868-1912), circa 1895The twelve-sided vessel set on tripod feet worked in various gauges of gold and silver wire, and colored enamels decorated on six vertical panels with scenes of seasonal flowers against a ground of interlocking cherry-floret lozenges, the domed cover pierced with inome ("boar's eyes"), heart-shaped openings, signed on a silver tabled Kyōto Namikawa 3 1/2in (8.9cm) highProvenanceGeorge E. McGague, purchased in Kyoto from Namikawa Yasuyuki in April 1903, and thence by descentSimilar ExampleA twelve-sided incense burner illustrated in Bijutsu gahō (The Magazine of Japan Art), vol. III, no. 4, (September 25, 1896) and exhibited at the spring 1896 exhibition of the Kyoto Art Association where it received First Gold Medal (see www.tobunken.go.jp/materials/gahou/page/20)