An inlaid bronze slender vaseBy Suzuki Chokichi (1848-1919), Meiji era (1868-1912), circa 1870s-1880s
The body worked predominantly in silver and shibuichi relief inlay with a hototogisu (cuckoo) perched on a flowering branch of hydrangea, the neck and foot decorated with repeated geometric and foliate motifs in fine flat inlay of gold and silver; stamped on the base Kako within an oval reserve beneath the double mountain mark.
24cm (9½in) high.