A JAPANESE PARCEL-GILT BRONZE BOX AND COVER BY INOUE OF KYOTO MEIJI ERA, 19TH/20TH CENTURY Raised on three splayed feet, the cover decorated with a Chinese-style still life featuring a nyoi sceptre, a woven basket of fruits, a scholar's rock and a crackled-ground vase containing large branches of flowering chrysanthemum and hydrangea, with details picked out in gilt; an impressed mark to the base reading Dai Nihon Saikyo ju Inoue sei , 13.2cm. (2)