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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Touchdry, post: 1019752, member: 12381&quot;]I promise not to post any more!</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.thrownandfired.com/images/tripod0.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><img src="https://www.thrownandfired.com/images/tripod1.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><img src="https://www.thrownandfired.com/images/tripod2.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p>This appears to be the bottom part of a koro (incense burner), and the decoration might be called &#039;shakudo&#039; (I think that is the right spelling). I cannot see any mark anywhere.</p><p><br /></p><p>So, my question is, is this a Japanese Meiji period Koro with shakudo decoration (including by the looks of it - silver and gold) ... or a modern repro for the tourist trade?</p><p><br /></p><p>I think it is in a pretty bad state - the top has a number of cracks, indicating possible heat cracks, and it could have had an upper part which might have been sawn off! Oh, and one of the legs is wobbly!</p><p><br /></p><p>... Otherwise it is a fine example of Japanese engraving and incising, and inlaying ...[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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