Vase with Rooster, Hen, and Chicks among Banana Plants

early 20th century (Meiji period (1868-1912))

22.9 cm 50.5 cm

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This cloisonné vase features a rooster, a hen, and chicks among banana plants. Beginning in the 1880s, Japanese cloisonné artists developed wireless cloisonné (musen shippō), a technique for which Namikawa Sōsuke was renowned. This vase shows no traces of the metal wires that...

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Edward Higginson Williams (1824-1899), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Woodstock, Vermont; Edward Higginson Williams Collection Sale, Christie's, New York, October 12, 1979; Lynne C. and Michael H. Lerner, Hoboken, New Jersey and New York [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1995, by gift.
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