NAMIKAWA YASUYUKI (1845-1927) OF KYOTO A Cloisonné-Enamel Miniature Squat Jar and Cover Meiji era (1868-1912), early 20th century (3)NAMIKAWA YASUYUKI (1845-1927) OF KYOTOA Cloisonné-Enamel Miniature Squat Jar and Cover Meiji era (1868-1912), early 20th centuryFinely worked in silver and gilt wire and decorated with butterflies hovering among meandering sprays of stylised chrysanthemum and other blossoms on a lightly mottled salmon-pink ground, the shoulder with a tightly clustered lobed band enclosing formal foliate motifs, the domed cover embellished with similar sprays of chrysanthemums and surmounted by a chrysanthemum finial, applied with a gilt brass rim and foot, signed on the base with chiselled characters Kyoto Namikawa on a silver plaque; with a wood storage box. 8.5cm (3 3/8in) high. (3).Published and illustrated:Sano Museum, Kindai kogei no hana, Meiji no shippo (Belle of Modern Crafts: Meiji-Period Cloisonn), exh. cat., Shizuoka, 2008, p.64, pl.73.