The baluster vase with a short flared neck decorated in polychrome enamels and silver and gold wires with a hawk perched on a maple tree on a blue ground, the mark on base; silver rims
5⁷⁄₈ in. (14.9 cm.) high

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Hayashi Kodenji (1831-1915) studied the art of cloisonné making under Tsukamoto Kaisuke (1828-1887), who had in turn studied under Hayashi Shogoro, a direct pupil of Kaji Tsunekichi (b. 1803). Kaji had discovered the secret of cloisonné manufacture in 1838, and was retained by the daimyo of Owari, Tokugawa Keisho, in 1850. He is regarded as having laid the foundations of the cloisonné industry in Nagoya, and Hayashi Kodenj perhaps as the most brilliant of his successors.