An Impressive Japanese Cloisonné Vase

By Hayashi Chuzo, Meiji Period, circa 1890

The large octagonal vase with short everted neck worked in various thickness of silver wire with an eagle with outstretched wings in a maple tree, at the base of the tree there are numerous flowers including peony, chrysanthemums and grasses, above a band of foliate lappets, the neck with stylised chrysanthemums against scrolling vine, the rim with a band of further flowers bordered by geometric patterns

23 ¾ in (60 cm) high

cf. George Kuwayama, Shippo, the Art of Enamelling in Japan, 1987, no.61 – for a similar example in the Wyatt-Franke Collection
Frederic T. Schneider, The Art of Japanese Cloisonné Enamel: History, Techniques and Artists, 1600 to the Present, 2010, p.66, 244 and 270 – for information on the artist

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Hayashi Chuzo won the silver award at the International Exhibition in Liège in 1905.