By the Komai Company of Kyoto, Meiji era (1868-1912), late 19th/early 20th century Finely worked throughout in typical Komai style of predominantly flat gold overlay with extensive use of kebori for the details, the lower section with a continuous scene of three ho-o (phoenixes) in flight beneath a long slender neck lavishly decorated with scrolling fruiting vine separated by narrow bands of repeated geometric motifs; the base signed Nihon koku Kyoto no ju Komai sei beneath a dragonfly. 19cm (7½in) high.