By the Nogawa Company of Kyoto, Meiji era (1868-1912), late 19th/early 20th century The body finely worked in multi-metal flat relief of gold, silver, patinated copper and shakudo with two oval panels outlined with a bamboo border, one enclosing a solitary butterfly hovering among trailing wisteria, the other with a butterfly among flowering tokeiso (passion flower), the remainder of the body with stems of bamboo leaves, the cover similarly inlaid with a chain-link pattern surrounded by two paulownia among karakusa ('Chinese grasses') and surmounted by a knop in the form of a bud; signed on the base with a silver flat-inlaid mark of the Nogawa Company. 15.1cm (6in) high. (2).