so-called Koro, bronze, bulbous, vase-shaped body with fine figurative relief and engraving decoration as well as ornamental inlays, depiction of a man with a broom or birds on a branch, partially decorated with gold, curved handles on reliefed lion or demon masks or 3 slender curved legs, fine ornamental inlays, placed on a profiled round base, indistinct characters on the bottom, overall good condition with signs of age, height approx. 27 cm, probably Japan Meiji period around 1900