Pair Fine Antique 19th Century Japanese Meiji Cloisonné Double Gourd Vases 1890 Sold most likely by Phillippe-Joseph Brocard

most likely by Phillippe-Joseph Brocard (1831-1896)

The box having a fitted interior with the original ivory/bone sewing accoutrements

Please see a very similar desk that sold at Christie's

In 1939 he worked for the WPA Easel Project in New York and by the time he returned to Portland he was an established artist on the East Coast

The vase of baluster-shaped form and having a neck decorated with cloud forms and a collar of dark iron oxide below

Pair Fine Antique 19th Century Japanese Meiji Cloisonné Double Gourd Vases 1890 Sold most likely by Phillippe-Joseph BrocardA very good pair of antique Japanese Meiji period cloisonn vases, circa 1890. This is a very handsome pair of antique double gourd shaped cloisonn vases, one with a blue ground the other with a burgundy ground, both having a lappet design to the neck, the tops and bases are extravagantly decorated with many geometric stylized floral devices. Each vase is waisted with further lappets, the large globular base having a broad band of 'Greek Key' design,