A Pair of Japanese Bronze Vases, each of hexagonal inverted baluster form resting on a splayed foot and rising to a cylindrical neck with everted, lobed mouth, decorated with birds of prey amid the branches of maple and cherry trees, sparrows fly past and a cloud-shrouded full moon rises above them, all in kebori, relief, hon-zogan and iroe takazogan, the lip with a gilt key-fret band, unsigned, height 30.6cms, Meiji Period