A SMALL JAPANESE BRONZE VASE WITH FROG BY SHUSEI

A SMALL JAPANESE BRONZE VASE WITH FROG BY SHUSEI
MEIJI ERA, 19TH CENTURY

The flattened body raised on a short foot and with a tall neck, decorated with a small frog to the shoulder, the amphibian with its eyes inlaid in gilt; the base with a seal mark for Shusei, 14.3cm; together with a tomobako wood box inscribed Seido ichirin ike kabin, Koto Mitsumata, Shusei zo (A single-stem flower vessel in bronze, made by Shusei, at Mitsumata, of the Koto area, Eastern shore of Lake Biwa, Shiga Prefecture), with the seal Shusei. (2)