A Japanese bronze inlaid vase, by Suzuki Chokichi (Kako) 1848-1919, the body worked in gold, polychrome and silver relief inlay, with worm-eaten foliage, flowers and a grasshopper, the neck decorated with repeated geometric motifs in fine flat inlay of silver, gilt, stamped on the base Dai Nihon Kako tsukuru (made by Kako in great Japan), circa 1870s-1880s, 25.5 cm high, 13 cm wide (approximately)