By Bokkoku, late 19th/early 20th centuryOf muso-zutsu form, bearing a rich dark brown lacquer ground, delicately engraved in broad katakiri-bori and kebori with two herons perched on the withered branch of an old willow tree, the birds left unlacquered, revealing the pale wood base; signed Bokkoku to. 19.6cm (7?in) long.