ANINLAIDBRONZELARGECHARGER

Description

Meiji era (1868-1912), late 19th/20th century Finely cast, engraved, textured and carved, supported on a short footring, meticulously worked in high relief silver, bronze, gold, copper, and shakudo inlays depicting a karako ('Chinese boy') clad in diaphanous robes emblazoned with shishi (Chinese Mythical Lion) roundels and ruyi -head clouds, his arms outstretched reaching for two dragonflies fluttering in the air, his round jovial face beneath a plumed Jurchen headdress, all within an elegant balustraded garden setting sheltered beneath arching pine branches; flowering peonies and rocks behind, a tasselled insect cage on the lower left foreground, an elaborate dragon-decorated koro (incense burner) displayed on a Chinese cabriole-legged stand on the right, Taihu rocks, all surrounded by a band of stylised birds among interwoven foliate scrolls; unsigned . 4.5cm x 60cm (1¾in x 23½in).