Lot 58D: Japanese Totai Cloisonne Vase

SOLD: $649 (includes Buyer’s Premium)
Estimate: $700 – $1,000

Ovoid-shaped, elaborately decorated with multicolor enamels of varied floral sprigs, butterflies and descending ducks on a turquoise ground, shoulders with porcelain body molded into shallow folds suggesting a silk cloth cover secured at the neck by a dark sky blue thick tasseled cord, base artist or maker signed in red, gilding on faux cloth at top, c. 1890-1910, 10 1/4″ h, 6 1/2″ w, (ex. John P. Richardson estate collection, Hingham, MA).