A Japanese gold and silver inlaid brown patinated bronze bowl, Meiji/Taisho period, possibly by the Kanazawa Bronze Company, of quatrelobed oval form and fitted with a liner, the exterior finely inlaid with a band of opposing ho-o birds above a design of Imperial (kiri) mon, flanked by a pair of loose ring handles, on four scroll feet, incised two line signature to base, length 20cm.