A cloisonné-enamel miniature jar and cover By the Shibata Workshop of Kyoto, Meiji era (1868-1912), late 19th/early 20th century Finely worked in silver wire and decorated with butterflies hovering over a flowering shrub of hydrangea and wisteria on one side and hakuchoge (Serissa japonica) on the other, all reserved on a midnight-blue ground, the domed cover embellished with three butterflies and surmounted by a gilt bud finial, applied with gilt brass rim and foot, signed on a silver tablet Kyoto Shibata; with a plain wood storage box. 13.3cm (5¼in) high. (3).