Vase in a double conical form with a flaring mouth set on a ribbed neck, the shoulders ornamented with four geometric roundels. With a disc form stand, the sides ornamented with geometric motifs. Of cast bronze with a mottled red, benido style patina, the roundels inlaid in gold, silver and copper. The stand of chestnut wood wrapped in cast bronze with silver inlay. By Yoneda Hirotoshi (born 1911). Early Showa era, circa 1930 – 1940.

With the tomobako or original box, signed on the reverse of the lid: Hirotoshi no Saku or Work by Hirotoshi, and sealed: Hirotoshi.

From Toyama Prefecture, Yoneda Hirotoshi was first accepted into the national exhibitions with the 13th Teiten in 1932. He continued to show frequently, returning to the 15th Teiten in 1934, and the 4th and 6th Shin-Bunten in 1941 and 1943. After the Pacific War, he exhibited at the 2nd and 3rd Nitten in 1946 and 1947, the 5th in 1949, the 7th in 1951, the 8th in 1952, and the 11th in 1955.

In Ishikawa and Toyama Prefectures, it was relatively common for artists to sign the storage box and not the piece itself. Some of the inlay is itself chiseled and faceted. The geometric and modernist style combined with the gold and silver inlay suggests that Yoneda Hirotoshi’s work was known to Kanamori Eiichi, an artist who worked in the metalworking center of Takaoka in Southern Toyama and who was later designated Juyo Mukei Bunkazai or Important Intangible Cultural Asset (commonly known as a Living National Treasure).