A Japanese ivory tusk vase with Komai-style mounts, the cover decorated in Shibayama-style in aogai, horn and wood with a pair of doves on rockwork as the finial, carved to one side with Shotokutaishi with a tennyo by lotus and a rakan, Tamonten and an acolyte on the other (cover cracked, hairline cracks to finial) -- 9.in.high.