A hammered silver spirit flask by Theodore B. Starr

featuring the Japanese thunder God Raiden shown leaping from the clouds, the figure and
his accompanying stylised lightning bolts carried out in raised copper, his drumsticks of brass,
a broken bottle struck by a lightning bolt shown at the base. 

New York, c.1885.

Theodore B. Starr was one of the successors of Starr and Marcus

Exhibited:

Japonisme: from Falize to Fabergé, the Goldsmith and Japan,
Wartski, 2011, number 172..