Shoto Toshinaga - Iron dish
An iron dish, in the form of a partially rotted lily leaf, supported on its twisted stem, a gilt metal crab crawling to one side, the details on the rotted edge worked in gilt bronze.
Signed on a gilt plaque Toshinaga
Width 11.4 cm
Meiji period, circa 1880
Shoto Toshinaga is recorded working in Okayama circa 1875, see R E Haynes, H10471.0. Japan. Meiji period. (1868-1912)
£4,000
