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MEIJI PERIOD (LATE 19TH CENTURY)
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A Bronze Koro [Incense Burner]
Meiji Period (late 19th century)
With a seated oni lifting a large vessel on its shoulder, another smaller oni behind him, the vessel engraved, chiseled and inlaid in high and low relief in silver, copper, shakudo and gilt with a lobed panel depicing a lake before Mount Fuji, the reverse panel with birds in a cherry tree, the sides with tempestuous waves, the neck with applied archaic style handles and the roliate rim inlaid with twelve small roundles depicting the twelve animals of the zodiac
32cm. high
Meiji Period (late 19th century)
With a seated oni lifting a large vessel on its shoulder, another smaller oni behind him, the vessel engraved, chiseled and inlaid in high and low relief in silver, copper, shakudo and gilt with a lobed panel depicing a lake before Mount Fuji, the reverse panel with birds in a cherry tree, the sides with tempestuous waves, the neck with applied archaic style handles and the roliate rim inlaid with twelve small roundles depicting the twelve animals of the zodiac
32cm. high