A CLOISONNE ENAMEL SPARROW VASE, C.1910, Stamped with the mark of Namikawa Yasuyuki , Kyotothe elongated body with narrow cylindrical neck and flat-flared rim, cover in midnight blue enamel and decorated with a singing sparrow perched atop a flower plum tree, with gold wire divisions, the flowerheads brightly enamelled in various shades of pink tones over slightly spreading foot, the signature stamped directly to silvered base plate, 15.2cm highA very similar vase is in the Edwin Davies Cloisonné Collection at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London and illustrated in the V&A publication Japanese Cloisonné by Gregory Irvine (2006), p. 136 where further comparisons are referenced :For a vase with an autumnal scene of a bird on maple which could be a pair to this vase, see Coben and Ferster, Japanese Cloisonné (1982), plate 92. For vases with similar designs, see also Impey and Fairley, The Dragon King of the Sea (1991), no. 19, and Barry Davies Oriental Art, London, Japanese Enamels of the Golden Age (1990), no. 10