A FINE AND RARE BRONZE INLAID MOONFLASK BY MIYAO AND TOGYOKUSAI

Description:

Japan, signed, marked, Meiji period
H. 18,9 cm
Finely decorated in silver, gilt, copper and shibuichi takazogan, one face with a humourous scene of Daruma in a cave awakening from his nine years of meditation and frightening a peasant in the process, the other with a group of apes, the adult curiously examining a Netsuke of a monkey. Signed Miyao zo and Togyokusai.
From a South German private collection, purchased by the present owner at Sotheby's London, 15.5.2007, lot 960
Minor traces of age