By Hayashi Hachizaemon (circa 1850-1908) of Nagoya, Meiji era (1868-1912), late 19th/early 20th century Finely worked in silver wire of varying gauge with flowering white and lilac chrysanthemums growing behind a fence on the rocky banks of a meandering river, the neck encircled by a brocade pattern, reserved on a midnight-blue ground; signed on the base with an impressed mark Hachi. 9cm (3½in) high.