A large Meiji midnight blue vase with herons in a willow tree

A beautiful and large fine detail Japanese Cloisonne Meiji era vase.

The vase depicts three fine herons perched in a willow tree. The colours are magnificent with the trunk of the tree in bright blue and flowers in a contrasting orange. No other color combination is quite as effective at this because blue and orange are in the middle of the warm and cold sides of the color wheel.

The vase has been executed in silver wire of varying gauge, always a sign of quality with the fine detail in thin silver wire and the tree trunk in thicker gauge silver wire. The neck and foot both have very fine detailed, colourful borders.

The vase stands 12" tall and is in good condition but had one chip to the side shoulder of the vase approx. 12mm long. This has been colour filled and is hardly noticeable.

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