Meiji era (1868-1912), late 19th century Worked in standard and sculpted silver wire and colored enamel with a pair of confronted serpentine dragons on a black ground, the neck and foot decorated with a band of floral garlands, the interior of the rim fitted with a metal insert carved with a mokume surface beneath key frets, the mounts silvered, signed on the underside Gi against a mottled ground 11 3/4in (29.8cm) high