A gilt-bronze okimono of a pheasant and snake
By Genryusai Seiya, Meiji era (1868-1912), late 19th/early 20th centuryStanding with its head lowered as it spies a snake coiled around its right legs, resting on an unrelated gnarled separate wood stand; signed on the pheasant's belly within a gilt rectangular reserve Seiya chu. The pheasant: 19.5cm x 40cm (7 5/8in x 15?in), the wood stand: 6cm x 64cm (2 3/8in x 25 3/16in). (2).