A bronze okimono in the form of three delicately modelled egrets each standing on one leg the other tucked into their plumage, with their heads raised supporting a flawless rock crystal sphere, the eyes gilt, set on a wood stand in the form of a stylised tree stump standing in swirling water.
Signed on a bronze plaque Maruki sei
Height 32.5cm
Meiji Period, circa 1900
With flawless rock crystal sphere
£15,000