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A pair of Japanese bronze mallet shaped vases
decorated in high relief in applied silver, gilt and shakudo with geese standing before reeds -- 10in. (26cm) high, (old wear); and a pair of bronze balster vases with short everted necks decorated in inset silver, gilt and copper with small birds perched on canes above flowering chrysanthemums -- 8in. (21cm) high, incised signatures, all 19th Century.
See Front Cover Illustration for two (4)
decorated in high relief in applied silver, gilt and shakudo with geese standing before reeds -- 10in. (26cm) high, (old wear); and a pair of bronze balster vases with short everted necks decorated in inset silver, gilt and copper with small birds perched on canes above flowering chrysanthemums -- 8in. (21cm) high, incised signatures, all 19th Century.
See Front Cover Illustration for two (4)