Description: Unusual, small vessel; the background decoration in slight relief consists of a very dense composition with kiku blossoms (chrysanthemums), the color an exceedingly beautiful, shiny silvery gray-blue, also featured on the concavely indented, knobbed lid. There are two fan-shaped fields, in one of which is a samurai in armor, while the other presents a beautiful bijin in front of a tree in full blossom in the foreground and, behind her, some men. On the bottom is the signature (made by …) KIN-KO-ZAN 錦 光 山 zo 造. Condition: Very well preserved Provenance: From an important Austrian private collection, acquired before 1930