Toho Kiyohira
Metalwork
An inlaid bronze vase worked in gold, copper, silver and shakudo taka-zogan with stems of chrysanthemum under a snow covered protective shelter, the reverse with a wasp in flight above a lotus root and pod, the sides with mask handles, the neck worked in hon-zogan with a formal border.
Signed Dai Nihon Ecchu no kuni, seizonin Toho Kiyohira (Ecchu of Great Japan, maker Toho Kiyohira).
Height 22.0cm.
Circa 1880.
Stock ref: 3911
£9,500
