Small tray with short edge, rectangular with notch on the upper left edge, following the vein of the Kiri-wood. In Takabori lacquer, ceramic and lead lining and green coloured stag antler a small, ready-to-jump frog sitting in front of a meleagrina-mother-of-pearl lotus-bud (slightly chipped) on a large lotus-leaf, out of which a whitely blossom is springing up. Another green-glazed ceramic lotus-leaf is swimming on the waves hinted at in the engraving. On the bottom inlaid seal: Kan (of Ritsu?). 20 x 14.8 cm. Wooden box, sign.: Yamashiro-j? Masamichi (according to Hara p. 82 1st half of the 19th c., presumably applying to the on-laid metal). 20 x 14.8cm. Condition A/B.