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Description:

Creamy White Cloisonné Vase, Japan, Meiji period, trumpet shape with long highly waisted body below a slightly domed shoulder, decorated with bamboo and sparrows in flight in silver and gold wires, respectively, silver rim, Ando workshop mark on base, ht. 9 1/2 in.

Provenance: Purchased from Orientations Gallery, New York, in 1989.
Estimate $3,000-5,000

minor glazing flaw to shoulder line, silver tarnishing, two-inch underglaze cracks around neck.


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