Japan. Meiji period. Designer: Watanabe Seitei or Sh?tei (1851-1918). Copper with musen shipp? (without bridges) and yusen shipp?. Rim framed with lacquered copper. The cock and hens in white, finely structured with shades of grey on a grey background. In contrast comb and wattles in shades of red. Only here are found very fine gilt metal bridges. 23 x 16,8cm, height 0,8cm. Front: Sign. Seitei and seal (Designer). Back with scattered cherry blossoms in shades of brown. In the center in silver the sakigake seal of the atelier of Namikawa S?suke. Condition A/B. Supplement: Japanese catalog with works of Namikawa S?suke with photos, descriptions and commentaries. Japanese watoshi bookbinding.
Provenance: -According to the owner this plate has been exhibited 1902 at the world exhibition in Paris. -Rhenish private collection. Acquired in the 1960s in Hamburg.