Four cloisonné-enamel vases and one cloisonné-enamel tray


Meiji era (1868-1912), late 19th/early 20th centuryEach worked in silver wire of varying gauge, comprising a pair of ovoid vases decorated with trailing wisteria on a celadon groud, each unsigned, 15.2cm (6in) high; the third decorated with a stalk of spider chrysanthemum on the light green ground, signed on the base with an unknown mark of two characters Mori on two crossed flags, 18cm (7 1/16in) high; the fourth a straight-sided baluster vase with a flock of huddled egrets wading in an iris pond, unsigned, 24.7cm (9¾in) high; the last a rectangular shallow dish decorated with a cockerel and hen reserved on a light-blue ground, unsigned, 12.2cm x 18.3cm (4 13/16in x 7¼in). (5).