THREE SMALL SOFT-METAL VASES, MEIJI PERIOD (LATE 19TH CENTURY), the first of slender baluster shape and decorated with a heron balancing on a tree limb, the tall base with three lappet feet--6 in. high; a vase of compressed baluster form, decorated with a butterfly in flight over flowers and grasses--3¾ in. high; a tear-shaped vase, with cranes amidst marsh grasses within a shaped panel, the reverse with flowering lotus, beneath a lappet band at the neck--3½ in. high (3)