A pair of slender pear-shaped cloisonné-enamel vases


Meiji era (1868-1912), late 19th/early 20th centuryEach delicately worked in musen (wireless) and shosen (partially wireless) technique and forming a complementary moonlit design, one vase decorated with three egrets wading beside stalks of bamboo and one solitary egret in flight against the full moon on the other, all reserved on a pale white-grey ground, each vase applied with a gilt rim and foot; each vase unsigned. Each vase 37.2cm (14 5/8in) high. (2).