1950s Japanese Ando Cloisoinne Mt Fuji Enamel Turquoise Blue White Clouds Tray Plate Square Wall

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A Japanese wireless enamel rectangular plaque depicting the upper slopes of Mount Fuji, rising above dawn clouds in a … more Description
A Japanese wireless enamel rectangular plaque depicting the upper slopes of Mount Fuji, rising above dawn clouds in a moriage style against a skyline of bronze metal, by Ando Shippo. Printed label and logo to reverse

Featuring an exquisite wireless(musen) Japanese cloisonne square tray with Mt. Fuji and clouds. This enamel scene is truly exceptional with the soft powdery clouds drifting over the shy mountain which rarely shows its face. Soft gray-blue background.

Mint, remarkably excellent condition and has been well cared for over the last century. No restorations, damages, chips, scratches. Dates to the first half of the 20th century.

Cloisonne is an enamelling technique in which the pattern is formed by wires soldered to the surface of the object to be decorated, which is usually made from copper, forming cells or cloisons, each of which holds a single colour of enamel paste which is then fired, and ground and polished. The champleve technique also uses an enamelling technique, but the cells are formed by carving into the surface ot the object, or in the casting. The cloisonne technique has been in use since the 12th century BC in the west, but the technique did not reach China until the 13th or 14th century. It became popular in China in the 18th century. Initially bronze or brass bodies were used, and in the 19th century copper, at which time the quality of the items produced began to decline. Chinese cloisonné is the best known enamel cloisonné, though the Japanese produced large quantities from the mid-19th century, of very high technical quality. In the west the cloisonne technique was revived in the mid 19th century following imports from China, and its use continued in the Art Nouveau and Art Deco periods. less