Binkake or brazier for use with a single tetsubin or teapot, with a modernist shape that echoes an archaic bronze, tripod-style incense burner. Of cast and patinated red bronze. Signed on the reverse with a cast seal-form signature: Hoshosai Zo or Made by Hoshosai (Kano Seiun I, the go or art name of Kano Ginzaburo, born 1871). With the original, carved rosewood stand. Late Meiji – Taisho era, circa 1900 – 1920.

With the tomobako or original box, inscribed on the exterior of the lid: Binkake or Teapot Brazier, and then: Hon(ke) (no) Yonezawa or (A Possession of the) Main House of the Yonezawa Family.

Kano Seiun I worked in Tokyo and studied metal arts under Oshima Joun. He exhibited at the Paris Exposition in 1900 and at the Taisho Exhibition in Tokyo in 1914. One of his okimono or sculptures is in the collection of the Tokyo National Museum.

For another piece in red bronze by the artist, c.f. Kagedo’s website: Kano Seiun I, Massive Red Bronze Vase with Carp. This vase is also illustrated in Kagedo’s catalogue Breaking Light, number 31. See also Kagedo’s catalogue Awaiting the Moon, number 82; and Splendors of Meiji, Treasures from Imperial Japan: Masterpieces from the Khalili Collection page 317, number 326.