Sold for $1,875

Sold prices are inclusive of Buyer’s Premium

Lot Description

A Pair of Midnight Blue Ground Cloisonné Vases

ATTRIBUTED TO THE OTA WORKSHOP, LATE 19TH CENTURY

each of baluster form, painted with shaped openings, one enclosing a pheasant perched on rockery underneath flowering prunus trees, the other showing birds landing onto bamboo, above blooming chrysanthemums; divided by cicada blade-form panels filled with flying phoenix birds, bearing a mark in the shape of a vessel, incised Ota, 太田.

Height of each 9 7/8 in., 25 cm.

Property being sold to benefit the Mission and Vision of the Couse-Sharp Historic Site, Taos, New Mexico

Christie's (according to label)

Condition Report

Each vase in good and stable condition with no major damages. One with a few cracks in enamel on the body, the other with pits and small areas with loss of enamel.

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