A Baluster Tall-necked Bronze Vase and A Bronze Okimono of an Owl


One by Murata Seimin (1761-1837) and one by Yasuyuki, Edo period (1615-1868) and Meiji era (1868-1912), early 19th to early 20th centuryThe first constructed in two sections, the short-eared owl (detachable) perched on a tree branch with its head cocked quizzically to the right and its wings folded at its sides; signed on one side of the branch Seimin chu within a rectangular reserve, 26cm x 26cm (10¼in x 10¼in); the second applied in high relief with a kingfisher perched on a stalk of lotus leaf decorated on the flattened body of the vase, another lotus stalk on the neck; signed on the base Yasuyuki, 31cm (12¼in) high. (3).