Antique Meiji Japanese Cloisonne Enamel on Porcelain Cloisonne Teapot Totai

An antique Japanese enamel porcelain tea set. Features a captivating bird and floral design meticulously executed in the intricate cloison...

An antique Japanese late Meiji era covered Totai enamel on porcelain trinket or jewelry box. Circa: late 19th century to early 20th century. The ware is enameled with a polychrome floral medallion with butterflies and berries, on the top of the cover, surrounded by floral, and foliage patterns made in the Cloisonne technique. A hand painted image of a flower, under the cover. Dated, 01.12.08, and probably numbered, 6, on the bottom. Totai Shippo...

An antique Japanese lidded tea or spice caddy, of a cylindrical form, covered with a polychrome cloisonne enamel depicting intricate design with flowers, butterflies and birds. Unmar...

A superb antique Japanese cloisonne enamel tea set from the Meiji Era, 1868 to 1912. The set comprises 2 cups and saucers, teapot, sugar bowl and cream...

A superb antique Japanese cloisonne enamel tea set from the Meiji Era, 1868 to 1912. The set comprises 2 cups and saucers, teapot, sugar bowl and cream...

Antique Early Meiji Japanese Cloisonne Enamel Footed Porcelain Bowl Totai An antique Japanese Meiji era footed enamel over porcelain bowl. The exterior of the bowl is enameled with p...

Extensively Decorated with Traditional Japanese Images The Tea Set comprises of fifteen pieces including six cup and saucers, a lidded teapot, a lidded sugar pot and a milk jug. The...

Fine Japanese Meiji period cloisonne enamel Sake pot. The Sake pot of rounded form with with clean edges profusely decorated with blossoming flowers throughout upon a black ground ba...

Chinese porcelain teapot dating from the end of the 19th century. With its modern shape and pretty colour, this teapot will be perfect in a...

A Chinese cloisonné enamel teapot and cover, 20th century gilt-decorated and enamelled with shuangxi characters and lotus flowers wreathed by dense foli...

Small teapot, square, rounded body on flat unglazed base. Curved handle and a short straight spout. Small upright mouthrim, flat lid with round knob. Imari decorated in iron-red and gold on the sides with flowering plants and grasses and two deeply recessed kidney-shaped panels with modelled decorations in high relief. One panel with a cock, chicken and two eggs on the other a bird perched on a branch of a prunus tree. Round the base of the spout an upturned pointed leaves pattern border. On the handle a floret between scrolls. On the cover round the base of the knob a leaves pattern border in low relief. In category 36 'Coloured Imari with no underglaze blue, iron-red and gold only' of his Japanese export porcelain, Impey states that the implication of this singular restriction of palette, without the use of underglaze blue, is that these may be the product of a single enamelling workshop, but may or may not be the product of a single kiln. The restriction is probably one of choice, for it would hardly be cheaper, if at all, to use a wider range of enamels, and no cheaper to use underglaze blue. Bottles, vases, teapots and other objects with similar recessed panels that form a kind of window through to a deeper picture layer were only produced for a short period. This was probably because they were too time-consuming to make and therefore expensive. This type of decoration is only found on Japanese pieces; Chinese imitations are still unknown. Japanese Imari objects decorated in a low relief are rare. In 'Fine & Curious' a bottle cat...

Antique Edo Period Japanese Porcelain Kakiemon Teapot Birds Flowers, 17 Century The decagonal lobed teapot and cover decorated in iron-red, blue, green, yellow and black enamels wit...