Pedestal vase

The two-part copper body (bowl and pedestal) has an applied silver rim and silver base plate with the jungin mark. The decoration is of a stylised, Art Deco-influenced band of silver yusen dandelion (tampopo) in low relief moriage green and orange enamel on a speckled dark matt green and brown ground. The foot is decorated with a scrolling band of leaves and silver yusen purple flowers. The counter-enamel is of a similar colour (although not speckled) to the body: this enamel has also been applied to the base, which has the gold yusen mark of the Ando Company. The vase is extremely elegant and simple in both form and design, and would have been equally acceptable in a fashionable Japanese ho

Pedestal vase · Nagoya · c.1920-40. Cloisonné enamel vase decorated with silver yusen (with wire) purple flowers and dandelions. The green and orange enamel is low-relief moriage (layers of enamel in relief). . By Ando Company. Victoria and Albert Museum, London.