Miyabe Atsuyoshi: A Japanese Inlaid Bronze Vase of ovoid form on a stepped, splayed foot and rising to a broad mouth with galleried lip, decorated with a central band showing a five-clawed dragon grasping a tama together with a further dragon and Ho-o bird, an upper band with a shishi and other mythical creatures amid waves, all in shishiaibori, kebori, copper, shakudo, shibuichi inlays, the shoulder with a copper hon-zogan key-fret band, height 30cms, base incised Atsuyoshi dzo, Meiji Period