Posted 6 years ago
racer4four
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I think this vase has been made by Kitaichi Glass from the island of Sapporo in Japan. The company started as a lamp making enterprise over 100 years ago, and now makes a wide variety of art glass.
The intense colours of the ground of this vase make it glow, and to me the orange tones are so very Japanese. The glass has been cased and the surface etched to satin, with the graphic sitting in gloss relief.
Initially I thought the work on this vase was a form of fine cameo, but now I think it has been enameled with the design.
It's quite large at 23cm high, and heavy, around 3kg.
Really beautiful vase!
Oh wow!! This is fantastic Karen!! I also love dragonflies.
Gorgeous serene image of a lovely dragonfly amid soft wispy flowers & leaves on the glowing orange background
This is a lovely vase Karen and I bet your 1st photo would look excellent in a frame!!:)
Lovely, striking Bzz Bzz vase, Karen!
Sooooo gorgeous!!
Now that's a positively beautiful piece. Really goreous!
oopsy... I meant 'gorgeous' and not goreous... :/
This is quite special, you find some of the most amazing glass, Very Japanese and of the high quality of your collection, Karen. Superb !~
What detail!! Is that a tiny inch-worm on the end of a twig about to become a dragonfly meal?
So beautiful!
very beautiful! reminds me of that orange satsuma i've seen and loved.
Thanks so much for the love and exclamations everyone. I wasn't sure how this would go over, but sure looks like a thumbs up!.
Many thanks:
Roy
Scott
Thomas
Jenni
Jude
Pascale
MrsT
Anik
Watchsearcher and
Pete
Thanks Ken :)
fabilus dramatic yet calming a magical piece karen
all the very best malkey
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STUNNING!!
Hey woman!!! how you be??? Here's my dragonfly again. Love it to pieces, oooo, not so sure I should have said that with it being glass... careful now ;)
We keep missing each other!!!
sweet...
Wow!!! I like this dragonfly exploring the autumnal grasses. It looks as though it's suspended in space - and yet the grasses imply so much wind motion. A lovely design. I wonder if this is intended to depict an akatombo (red dragonfly), which are seen more in early autumn, and therefore associated with that season rather than summer; the orange/red background might be an echo of the insect's colour, in that case.
(It's true, isn't it - orange is found quite a lot in Japanese art! I used to dislike orange until I started seeing it featured so often there, especially in obi brocades. Now I quite like it ;)
Thanks for visiting this post and commenting RiF, this vase is currently packed away and I had forgotten how gorgeous it is!
Nice info on the dragonfly. I love how even modern Japanese art focuses so much on nature, and in such a creative and almost reverential way.