A pair of Japanese gilt-bronze slender tapering oviform vases with slightly flaring necks and peach handles decorated in hirazogan, takazogan and silver with Kinko riding his carp among breaking waves and below a pine tree issuing from towering rockwork, the reverses with birds in flight among flowering roses and grasses, a band of key-pattern to the shoulders and foot rims (one drilled, some polished areas) -- 12¼in.high.