Cloisonné imperial vases pair up at £145,000

The latest sale at Alastair Gibson Auctions in Kent was led by a stellar example of Meiji or Taisho era cloisonné: a pair of imperial presentation vases by Nagoya master Hattori Tadasaburo.

Consigned to sale on December 6 in East Brabourne, Ashford, by a vendor from outside the UK, they …

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