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A Japanese bronze tapering vase
with short everted neck and foot and twin angular handles, decorated in relief in silver, gilt and copper with two shaped panels depicting a bijin standing wearing long flowing robes and holding a prunus branch and mandarin ducks swimming in pond before retreats in a river landscape, all on a ground inlaid in silver with trailing foliage and geometric motifs -- 9in. (23cm.) high, (old wear).
See Illustration.
with short everted neck and foot and twin angular handles, decorated in relief in silver, gilt and copper with two shaped panels depicting a bijin standing wearing long flowing robes and holding a prunus branch and mandarin ducks swimming in pond before retreats in a river landscape, all on a ground inlaid in silver with trailing foliage and geometric motifs -- 9in. (23cm.) high, (old wear).
See Illustration.