As part of our Japanese works of art collection we are delighted to offer this most charming Meiji Period 1868-1912, bronze and mixed metal wall hung or cabinet plaque, the heavy fine quality circular plaque is decorated with a bird upon a tree in the manner that instantly shouts Suzuki Chokichi, the highly acclaimed Imperial artist and former director of the Kiritsu Kosho Kaisha, the first government sponsored company promoting Japanese metalwork''s in the mid Meiji period. However this exceptional quality metalwork has been produced by a Tokyo based artist recorded as Muramata Yoshitoshi, his name can also be read as Yoshihisa, the artist must have taken his inspiration from Chokichi''s works , if in fact he wasn''t working alongside him at some point, we may never know , what I do know and can state with conviction is that this artists metalworking skills were very fine indeed, the autumnal foliage is as good as you are likely to encounter on a panel of this type, an increasingly sc...