Dish

This unusually shaped vessel has a copper body with an applied gilded rim and foot-edges. It is decorated with geometrical shapes delineated by gilded copper yusen wires which divide the yellow enamel ground into grid-like sections. The central side panels have been cast or hammered into curves; the wires here are largely invisible under heavily applied alternating bands of blue, white and dark orange enamel, areas of which have been highlighted in gold. The interior ground is a combination of thickly applied purple and turquoise enamels, with gilded vertical wiring. The inside of the dark brown enamelled base has the gilt copper yusen mark of the Ando Company. The vessel has a strongly Art-

Dish · Nagoya · c.1930-50. Cloisonné enamel fruit with the mark of the Ando Company. The geometric design is formed using yusen (with wires) technique. . By Ando Company. Victoria and Albert Museum, London.