Lot 187: By Namikawa Sosuke (1847-1910) A small kidney-shaped cloisonné-enamel tray Meiji era (1868-1912), c. 1900

BY NAMIKAWA SOSUKE (1847-1910)
A small kidney-shaped cloisonné-enamel tray
Meiji era (1868-1912), c. 1900
Worked in colored enamels in standard and musen (“wireless”)
technique and silver wires with a design of a pair of ducks swimming
under a cloud-obscured full moon, all against a pale blue ground,
signed and sealed Setei (Watanabe Setei (1851-1918), for the design),
the underside with the Sakigake mark of the artist against a ground
of scattered cherry blossoms worked in gold wire and purple-brown
enamel on a brown enamel background 7 1/2in (19cm) wide