A Japanese Meiji period cloisonne and gilt bronze pot and co...

Hammer

£600

A Japanese Meiji period cloisonne and gilt bronze pot and cover of shouldered, spherical form, with short neck and everted rim, standing on three feet, decorated with three six petal flower head panels, containing a Phoenix, a dragon, a snake headed animal and aventurine, against a brown ground with allover flower head pattern, a gilded and black lacquered knop a later replacement, 5 2/8" h