The cloisonné by Takeuchi Chubei of Nagoya for the Shippo Gaisha Company
Decorated with an overall design of assorted fish including koi (carp), kingyo (gold fish), dojo (oriental weather loach) and namazu (catfish) swimming amidst stems of aquatic plants worked in gilt wire on a blue ground, the trumpet-shaped porcelain neck painted in underglaze blue and gilt with shippo-zunagi (linked-jewels) descending from the rim, the sides of the neck applied with two handles in the form of two chrysanthemum heads, the inside of the rim painted in underglaze blue with a band of repeated designs of stylised semi-circular flower heads, the foot painted in underglaze blue with two bands respectively of repeated stylised floral heads interwoven among karakusa ('Chinese grasses') and repeated stylized clouds; signed on the base in underglaze blue and iron red Dai Nihon seizo Shippo Gaisha, kojin Takeuchi Chubei (made by Takeuchi Chubei for the Shippo Gaisha Company, Great Japan).