Globular bronze vase with a narrowed neck, finished with a brown patina. The surface is decorated with applied sheets of silver and gold against a textured ground, forming crescent-shaped motifs. The composition is further embellished with small inlays and enhanced with delicate silver wire inlay. 

Signed beneath the base, artist’s seal unidentified. 

The piece was most probably made in Takaoka.

Japan, Shōwa period (1926–1989)

H. 23 cm, Diam. 22 cm