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c.1920 (made)
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The copper body of the vase has an applied silver rim and silver base plate with the jungin mark. The pale blue enamel ground has an applied decoration of fantail and black telescope goldfish (kuro-demekin) swimming through pondweed. The pondweed and background are formed by shaded musen enamels and the fish are fashioned through the use of silver yusen for the eyes with ginbari-style foil behind them. There is clear and translucent tomei-jippo on parts of the fishes' bodies with some shosen decoration for the tailfins. Highlighting of the body has been achieved by light hammering (nanako) of the copper surface. The counter-enamel is of a matt green colour. The subtly applied and graded colours of the ground give the impression of the watery depths from which the fish emerge. See Coben & Ferster Plate 156 for a similarly decorated vase by Gonda Hirosuke, c.1935.
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| Parts | This object consists of 2 parts.
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| Materials and techniques | Cloisonné enamel vase with copper body, applied silver rim and silver base plate. The background and pondweed are formed by <i>musen</i> (no wires technique) while the fantail and black telescope goldfish have bodies formed using translucent <i>tomei-jippo </i>(transparent or translucent enamel through which the base metal can be seen). Their eyes are fashioned through silver <i>yusen </i>(with wires technique) together with <i>ginbari</i>-style foil (a layer of silver foil is covered with enamel) behind them. |
| Brief description | Cloisonné enamel vase decorated with fish, unsigned, Nagoya, Japan, c.1920 |
| Physical description | Cloisonné enamel vase decorated with a fantail and black telescope goldfish. The vase has a copper body, applied silver rim and silver base plate. |
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| Content description | fish, goldfish |
| Credit line | Given by Edwin Davies |
| Summary | The copper body of the vase has an applied silver rim and silver base plate with the jungin mark. The pale blue enamel ground has an applied decoration of fantail and black telescope goldfish (kuro-demekin) swimming through pondweed. The pondweed and background are formed by shaded musen enamels and the fish are fashioned through the use of silver yusen for the eyes with ginbari-style foil behind them. There is clear and translucent tomei-jippo on parts of the fishes' bodies with some shosen decoration for the tailfins. Highlighting of the body has been achieved by light hammering (nanako) of the copper surface. The counter-enamel is of a matt green colour. The subtly applied and graded colours of the ground give the impression of the watery depths from which the fish emerge. See Coben & Ferster Plate 156 for a similarly decorated vase by Gonda Hirosuke, c.1935. |
| Bibliographic reference | Japanese Cloisonne
Irvine, Gregory. Japanese Cloisonné. (London:V&A Publications, 2006), p. 41. |
| Other number | ED 14 - Edwin Davies collection number |
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| Accession number | FE.3:1, 2-2011 |
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| Record created | February 9, 2011 |
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