Keywords: Japanese - One of a Pair of Vases with Doves and Apricots - Walters 44689.jpg This vase a pair with Walters 44 688 depicts multicolored doves on flowering apricot branches against a midnight-blue ground Borders at the base and neck are geometric patterns inspired by Japanese textiles The mounts and cloisons are silver There is a mottled shakudo and gold surface inside the neck and on the bottom ca 1895 Meiji silver-wire and wireless cloisonné enamel shakudo gold cm 19 8 h x diam accession number 44 689 22305 Stephen W Fisher date and mode of acquisition unknown Walters Art Museum Gift of Stephen W Fisher 1994 place of origin Japan Walters Art Museum license Meiji ceramics in the Walters Art Museum Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review |