As part of our Japanese works of art collection we are delighted to offer this staggering quality Meiji period 1868-1912 bronze and mixed metal planter on its original pierced hardwood stand, the bronze planter is what is generically termed Kanazawa or Kaga school as it came out of the Kanazawa Doki (bronze) company in the earlier part of the Meiji period circa 1880, the heavy gauge rectangular vessel is designed as a planter or Bonsai dish and is decorated with mirror image flush inlays of flora, the floral panels inlaid with gold, shakudo , shibuichi , silver and copper alloys to the highest possible standard imaginable, the four  more tranquil panels housed within  a further inlaid outer border of mythical beast, the planter is fully signed to the underside to read '' Dai Nihon teikoku, Ishikawa Ken ka , Kaga Koku , Kanazawa Doki Kaisha Sei '' which translates to suggest it was made by the Kanazawa bronze company , Kaga , Ishikawa Perfecture, Great Imperial Japan , this incredibly h...