Object Description
A very fine Meiji period cloisonné box and cover with brocade designs, by Hayashi Tanigoro, worked in silver wire and coloured enamels with geometric and stylised dragon and phoenix bands, reserved against a mocha-ground, raised on four decorated bracket feet, silver rims and silk lined, signed ‘Dai Nihon Hayashi Tanigoro-zo’. Japanese, circa 1880.