One of a Pair of Vases with Doves and Apricots

Description Exhibitions Provenance Credit

Description The vase, a pair with Walters 44.689, depicts multicolored doves (grey, blue, lavender, green and orange) on flowering apricot branches against a midnight-blue ground. Borders at the base and rim are geometric patterns inspired by Japanese textiles. The mounts and cloisons are silver. Inside the neck and on the bottom there is a gold and shakudo mottled surface.

Exhibitions

Japanese Cloisonne Enamels. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. 1996-0.

Provenance Stephen W. Fisher [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1994, by gift.

Credit Gift of Stephen W. Fisher, 1994

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Creator

Japanese (Enameler)

Period

ca. 1895 (Meiji)

Medium

silver-wire and wireless cloisonné enamel, shakudo, gold
(Enamels)

Accession Number

44.688

Measurements

7 1/2 x 3 1/8 in. (19 x 8 cm) (h. x diam.)

Geographies

Japan (Place of Origin)

Location Within Museum

Not On View