Meiji period Japanese Bronze Damascene vase overlaid with Silver Chrysanthemum and Butterfly | signed art pottery 1965 - 1981

1965 - 1981

Karl and David took over the company as Ernst Bohne & Söhne

From an estate of a collector who had many world travels - this is higher end

to become an icon for the Applied Arts

By Goran Warff

Meiji period Japanese Bronze Damascene vase overlaid with Silver Chrysanthemum and Butterfly | signed art pottery 1965 - 1981Japanese Bronze vase overlaid with White Metal Silver Chrysanthemum and Butterfly signed lower right A very attractive late 19th or early 20th century Japanese bronze and mixed metal vase, using the damascene technique to inlay white and yellow metal over the very attractively toned bronze base. The scenes are traditionally Japanese, this vase seeing Chrysanthemum and a small Butterfly Meiji period c. 1862 1912 [this is later Meiji c. 1900 1910]