A Japanese silver and gold inlaid shakudo baluster vase

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A Japanese silver and gold inlaid shakudo baluster vase
decorated with egrets wading among reeds below petsla to the neck -- 5.in (12.7cm) high, signed; another with a cockerel and hen among bamboo -- 4.in (12.1cm) high, signed; another of gourd-shape decorated with a long-tailed cockerel on prunus branches -- 5.in (14.5cm) high, signed; and a similar bronze cylindrical vase with a cockerel among prunus -- 6.in (15.2cm) high, Hattori factory mark. See Colour Plate 9. (4)

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