This Japanese antique ,Sophisticated bronze suiban flower vessel featuring full elephant head handles and roiling sea legs.  Traditionally suiban may display cut flowers with branches, or be the setting of living bonsai plantings, or house small beautiful stones, or suiseki http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suiseki.  These form miniature mountain landscapes.  Let your imagination run wild.  Create your own Zen stone garden with gravel; Create your own plum branch arrangement with iris…etc, etc.  In excellent condition, this item needs a bold free flowing arrangement to offset its structured form.  This Japanee antique SUIBAN is unsigned.