Exquisite antique Shibayama Koro from the Meiji period features dragon base, dragon handles with very long detailed whiskers, quail flapping wings finial on lid and is decorated on the body with enamel flowers, mother of pearl trailing wisteria and birds, signed on bottom on gold style plaque, each panel also has characters/signed on wood back as seen in photos. Dragon base has a detached toe that is included, vase platform needs to be reattached to dragon. Approx 13.25"H assembled, 7.5" diam at widest point.

Exquisite antique Shibayama Koro from the Meiji period features dragon base, dragon handles with very long detailed whiskers, quail flapping wings finial on lid and is decorated on the body with enamel flowers, mother of pearl trailing wisteria and birds, signed on bottom on gold style plaque, each panel also has characters/signed on wood back as seen in photos. Dragon base has a detached toe that is included, vase platform needs to be reattached to dragon. Approx 13.25"H assembled, 7.5" diam at widest point. The urn is sunken in by one dragon handle. The dragon handle itself is slightly squished down. One inlay panel is missing a small flower bud. one panel has slight cracking to gold lacquer. Enamel looks good. Base platform has soldering, needs re-soldered to dragon face. Dragon base appears good other than broken finger as seen in photo. The insert is also signed on bottom.