The body inset with two large lobed panels edged in silver, one decorated with Koreijin (the Chinese sage, Ju Lingren) seated, holding a pomegranate out of reach from the white tiger he is stroking with one hand while a karako (Chinese boy) stands balancing a large vase brimming over with chrysanthemums at his side, the other enclosing mandarin ducks at the water's edge, three small birds perched and huddled together on a flowering cherry branch and two sparrows in flight among peonies and wistaria trailing over a bamboo fence, all inlaid in various materials in Shibayama style and reserved on a kinji ground embellished with scrolling kiri lacquered in gold hiramaki-e and e-nashiji, the shoulder applied with a silver handle on either side in the form of a ho-o (phoenix), the neck applied with four silver-edged scrolled shield panels enclosing floral motifs in coloured enamels, the en-suite domed cover chased with a mass of chrysanthemums, partly inlaid in coloured enamel and surmounted by an enamelled three-leaved flowering bud finial, the whole supported on three silver feet in the form of elephant-heads; unsigned. (2).