Handsome small bronze incense burner (koro) by Makita Shuun, the main body resting on one foot, finely decorated all around with geometrical pattern and other motifs.
Makita Shuun was born in Shizuoka Prefecture in 1917, and studied buddhist sculpture with Mochizuki Hideaki in Yokohama. He is best known for his images of Buddhism and Shinto figures. He notably realized the bell tower and the sculptures for a religious community in Kanagawa Prefecture in 1953...

Handsome incense burner in nearly cylindrical shape resting on three small feet, made with silver wire and colored opaque enamels, by Mori Mikio from Ando Cloisonne workshop. It is decorated, on a light brown ground mottled with particles of diverse colors, with stylized designs of pine, bamboo and plum (”sho chiku bai”, symbolizing long life, hardiness and vitality) in panels on each of the three sides, that resemble Japanese family crests...