Property of various owners UNIDENTIFIED ARTIST (ACTIVE LATE 19TH CENTURY)An inlaid-bronze flower vase Meiji era (1868-192), late 19th century Cast in bronze with an ovoid body and flaring foot and mouth decorated in bold relief with gold and silver highlights with a cormorant fisherman at work while a tanuki drums his belly as he watches from beneath a pine tree, the foot decorated with birds along a rock shoreline and the rim with a key-fret band above standing lappets, signed with an illegible seal With a wood tomobako storage box inscribed in the cover [] [] [] [] Sho u [] dō kabin and bearing a seal 10 1/4in (26.1cm) high None