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A balustervase with a long flared neck , in translucent blue cloisonné enamel heightened with gold foil flecks (paillons). Decorated with stylized flowers and scrollwork, together with geometric motifs and mythical beasts (dragons and phoenixes).. Silver mounts.
The deep, lustrous red ground is achieved by laying silver foil beneath translucent enamel (ginbari-shippō). Marked on the silver base for the Andō Company workshop. Preserved in its original inscribed wooden box (tomobako).
Japan, Shōwa period, mid-20th century.
Dimensions : H. 23 cm – diam. 16,5 cm.
450,00 €
Founded by Andō Jubei around 1880 in Nagoya, the Andō Company was one of the leading cloisonné enamel manufacturers of the Meiji period (1868–1912). Mastering a wide range of enameling techniques, the workshop won numerous awards, beginning with a gold medal at the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago. In 1900, the year of the Paris Exposition Universelle, Andō Jubei was appointed Purveyor to the Imperial Household, which commissioned pieces for use as official gifts. Continually reinventing its forms, designs and techniques over nearly 150 years, the Andō Company remains today the only maker of fine-quality enamels founded in the 19th century still in operation.