Hayashi Kodenji
Hydrangea Vase

ArtistJapanese, 1831–1915
CultureJapanese
Titles
  • Hydrangea Vase
Datec. 1900
MediumWired and wireless (musen) cloisonné enamels on dark blue ground
DimensionsOverall: 18 3/16 × 17 in. (46.2 × 43.2 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by Nanako and Dale Tingleaf; Friends of Asian Art; and gift of the Orientation Gallery
Object number2021.323
Non exposé

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Department
Asian Art
Object Type
ProvenanceCollection, Manchester, UK, before 2006; Collection of Eugene and Susan Tosk (Orientations Gallery), New York, 2006; purchased by MFAH, 2021.
Exhibition HistoryThis piece is currently on view as the centerpiece of the special exhibition Fire Works: Enamel Art through the Centuries, organized by the Museum of Fine Art, Houston’s Department of European Decorative Art.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
N/A
Engraved on metal base, enclosed within a circle, in emulation of handwriting/brushwork kanji “Hayashi,” the name of the artist, which means “woods.”


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