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Collection 4. Ando
Ando Jubei was one of the great master cloisonne enamelers of his time, able to sell to the Royal Household. […]
Read more »Totai Vases
See also the Japanese Totai Jars page. Totai is used here to describe cloisonné on ceramics, earthenware, and porcelain. Vase 77 […]
Read more »72. Familar and blue
/This is an attractive pair of vases in a familar shade of blue. The main decoration is a floral array […]
Read more »70. Ceramic butterflies in blue
/The main decoration on this pair of vases are the butterflies. That said, the contrasting colour scheme of the background […]
Read more »68. How spiral necklaces evolved away
/As the number of Japanese cloisonne objects covered by this website grows there are more and more ‘collections’. That is, […]
Read more »66. Canvas in blue and black
/This lovely large six sided vase provides lots of scope for attractive design. Birds race up and down within a […]
Read more »Blue Features
Certain vases with a strong blue element share a general style of decoration based on complex symmetrical patterns in the […]
Read more »65. Richly decorated and with stylish houou birds
/This attractive small four lobed vase is covered with lovely details. There are two main panel decorations each repeated twice. […]
Read more »62. Houou bird uncaged
/Often when we see a design with a phoenix or houou bird it is combined with a dragon. In some […]
Read more »Dragons
Dragon and phoenix (houou bird) decoration is a very popular form of decoration on Japanese cloisonne objects. The dragon images […]
Read more »59. A familiar phoenix
/This relatively modern vase has the dragon and houou bird theme seen many times before here. It contrasts wonderfully with […]
Read more »58. Can you rely on a roundel?
/This next object is a pretty little vase in the now familiar Kyoto coins and roundels style. Some of the […]
Read more »C6. Takatani Kenzaburou workshop
The Kyoto based workshop of Takatani Kenzaburou 高谷謙三郎 is often known from the factory photograph presented as a stereoview (marked […]
Read more »57. Roundel and roundel
/This lovely six lobed vase is covered in coins and roundels as well as neat and distinctive small gilded ‘strength […]
Read more »55. Birds among the flowers
/This is a bright and attractive vase with two birds patrolling a rich floral landscape. There are butterflies, daisy like […]
Read more »Collection 5. Blue squares and super spirals
Many workshops added brightness to traditional cloisonne by adding metal foil under transparent enamel. This became more sophisticated over time […]
Read more »50. Birds and dragons
/This very large 18″ tall vase (45.7 cm) is in the classic phoenix and dragon style. The large size (compared […]
Read more »49. Simply Kyoto
/This simple vase is in what is by now a very recognisable style. There are roundels and coins and a […]
Read more »48. Swirls of brown
/This lovely vase has curves in every direction. It is a little similar to the last pair of vases we […]
Read more »47. A study in brown
/This pair of small vases have a simple design with lots of interesting small touches. Each is round with four […]
Read more »46. Going roundel
/This next six lobed vase is very attractive, and is similar in several respects to earlier objects we have seen. […]
Read more »Collection 8. Scattered flowers
Usually this website only starts a collection once at least three objects suggest a clear connection. Here there are (so […]
Read more »45. Scattering flowers
/This lovely vase was instantly familiar but at the same time very different. It is the scattered five petal motif […]
Read more »44. A subtle shade of red
/This is a lovely tiny pair of vases, designed in mirror fashion though with some freedom in the minor details. […]
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