Something You Don't See Every Day - And Maybe Wish You Didn't!

[Bazza]

Spotted in my email inbox:

 

https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot/rare-Japanese-cloissonne-bronze-samari-helmet-urn-4964CCCB0E?utm_source=house&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=exclusive&utm_content=art091017

 

I like cloisonne, but this object????

 

BaZZa.

[uwe]

Anything but beautiful.....  

[Baka Gaijin]

Hi Uwe and BaZZa,

 

I think it's a rather "wonderful object".....definitely puts a Kapital K in Kitsch.

 

1900 - 1920?

 

definition of "wonderful object" being "I wonder why they ever made that.........

[Carlo Giuseppe Tacchini]

Bad taste is not a "Nanban" prerogative...

[estcrh]

Spotted in my email inbox:

 

https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot/rare-Japanese-cloissonne-bronze-samari-helmet-urn-4964CCCB0E?utm_source=house&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=exclusive&utm_content=art091017

 

I like cloisonne, but this object????

 

BaZZa.

Now if anything was made for the "Western market" in my opinion this fugly thing would be it.

 

 

[vajo]

Best way to bring a ghost at home...