130 - A large cloisonné "fish" dish A large cloisonné enamel dish, its rim decorated with a dragon and the interior with three fish swimming through water. The enamel work covers the entire surface, the vivid colours and meticulous cloison work demonstrating the scale and ambition of which the technique is capable. H: 6.5cm D: 32cm with restoration to the rim. Wooden box Collection of the Kumagai family, retainers of the Hirado domain.

A large cloisonné "fish" dish A large cloisonné enamel dish, its rim decorated with a dragon and the interior with three fish swimming through water. The enamel work covers the entire surface, the vivid colours and meticulous cloison work demonstrating the scale and ambition of which the technique is capable. H: 6.5cm D: 32cm with restoration to the rim. Wooden box Collection of the Kumagai family, retainers of the Hirado domain. The piece was originally a relic of Yamaga Sokō and was passed down in the Yamaga family, retainers of the Tōdō family, before entering the Kumagai family's possession during the tenure of Kumagai Naokata as Edo-rusui (resident deputy in Edo). Yamaga Sokō was a Japanese Confucian scholar and military strategist of the early Edo period. He was the founder of the Yamaga school of military science and the Kogaku (Ancient Learning) school of Confucianism. China, Ming Dynasty