A Japanese silver, shakudo and enamel koro and domed cover with dragon handles and eagle finial perched on rockwork, the foot and shoulder decorated in enamels with floral sprays, each side with shaped ivory panels decorated in the Shibayama-style in mother-of-pearl, stained ivory, horn and coral with an eagle and a bird among flowering prunus, the reverse with a hanging basket of flowers (pieces of inlay missing, old wear) -- 8.in.high, signed.

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A Japanese silver, shakudo and enamel koro and domed cover with dragon handles and eagle finial perched on rockwork, the foot and shoulder decorated in enamels with floral sprays, each side with shaped ivory panels decorated in the Shibayama-style in mother-of-pearl, stained ivory, horn and coral with an eagle and a bird among flowering prunus, the reverse with a hanging basket of flowers (pieces of inlay missing, old wear) -- 8.in.high, signed.
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