Here are a couple of pieces that Nakayama san and I did together. They’re both incense burners with fumed silver lids. The smaller lid is in 2 pieces, the main dome and the frame which holds it. Made like pieces hundreds of years ago, but not so much now. Cheaper to make it in one piece, but easier to repair if you have it in two, apparently. Not being a metalsmith I don’t know the details.

The larger lid is made similarly, but with a free spinning hollow knob, another thing you don’t see much of these days. Usually they are molded together with the lid, and the knob is a solid or single piece of metal. This one is two cast and handcarved sheets hammered to shape and placed together, with a pin through them to hold them to the dome.