What is this menuki theme?

[jason_mazzy]

Got these on an old mucked up tsuka that revealed a shakudo with fine nanako and a crane in gold, silver and red copper fuchi, and these menuki. Looks like a pot with a flower in it surrounded by pines and bamboo on one and bamboo and some other small flower maybe an ume branch? in heavy gold foil on shakudo.

[John A Stuart]

Perhaps a votive offering, mochi in a bowl. John

[chuck]

Flying saucer with grey alien landing in the woods?

 

I want to believe.

 

pax.

[chuck]

Actually - the flower in the center of the bowl, with kinda the little knob on top - anyone else think that might be a poppy bulb? Some kind of medicinal bowl, perhaps?

 

peace.

[Lee Bray]

Buddhist connotations?

 

 

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[jason_mazzy]

I think in the morrow I will take a picture from the top looking down. It is deeply carved and Maybe it will help. Looks to me like a bowl full of something cookin' or just placed on the table. Like an ornamental dish.

[Toryu2020]

Jason -

Sorry to say but the modelling is pretty poor, making it very hard to say just exactly what the artist is trying to show us here. If I had to say I would think what is in your bowl is a Tachibana flower and around it are other auspicious plants like Plum and Pine but it is very hard to say. Granted the bowl does look a bit like a rendai, a ceremonial incense burner...

fwiw

-t