An octagonal bronze brush pot or flower vase, carved design of plum blossom and inscribed with a Song dynasty poem, signed “Morishige”
Meiji period, Circa 1900
Height 12″, coll. #OR56
有梅花處惜無酒
三嗅清香當一杯
The plum blossoms, however, I regret that there is no wine
I take its fragrance three times as a drink
(Citation from the poem of Dai Fugu (Tai Fu-ku) – 1167-, poet of the Southern Song dynasty – titled “Seeing Plum in the Mountains”)
Signature,
守重 - Morishige