Hayashi Kodenji (1831-1915)


A fine cloisonné-enamel vaseMeiji era (1868-1912), late 19th/early 20th centuryThe elongated ovoid vase set on a raised foot, all worked in silver and gold wires and polychrome enamels with birds alighted and in flight among autumn maples and chrysanthemums in blossom against a midnight blue ground, the neck decorated with a collar of chrysanthemum scroll on a mustard-yellow ground and the foot with a band of similar decoration below floral lappets, signed on the foot Aichi Hayashi saku 10 1/8in (25.8cm) high