Two inlaid bronze circular chargers


Meiji era (1868-1912), late 19th/early 20th centuryEach engraved in sunken relief, katakiribori (engraving with an angled chisel emulating brushstrokes) and decorated in high relief of copper, gilt, shakudo and bronze, one with two sparrows in flight above flowering stalks of windswept peonies, signed on the base Kazunaga within an oval metal reserve, 30cm (11¾in) diam.; the second dish with a solitary sparrow flying above stalks of fuyo (rose mallow) and susuki (pampas grass), the reverse applied with a leaf and a rose mallow bud, one leaf and the signature tablet missing, 30cm (11¾in) diam. (2).