A small incense container with rabbit design


Kiyomizu Ware, Meiji (1868-1912) or Taisho (1912-1926) era, late 19th/early 20th centuryThe rectangular box with a fitted cover applied with a crouching hare and decorated with a roundel of crashing waves in polychrome enamels and gilt, the interior with a circular reservoir for incense painted with nanten (nandina) berries, the underside with an impressed seal NinseiWith a wooden tomobako storage box 3/4 x 2 x 2in (1.9 x 5.1 x 5.1cm)