A Pair of Japanese Bronze Vases, each of slender ovoid form resting on a stepped, splayed foot and rising to a short neck with narrow mouth, decorated with a band of stylised lotus flowers and foliage in the lower register, the upper section chased and inlaid in copper, silver, shakudo and gold with roundels of dragons, sparrows, butterflies, Ho-o birds etc. amid stylised lotuses, the neck with a key-fret band, unsigned, height 30.2cms, Meiji Period