A pair of Japanese shakudo flaring tapering oviform vases

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A pair of Japanese shakudo flaring tapering oviform vases
decorated in hirazogan and takazogan with shrines among pine and maple in a rocky landscape -- 13½in.(34.3cm.) high, signed Masaki koku to the sides and Miyamoto kni-sei to the bases.
See Colour Plate 8
Inscribed to the reverses: Presented to Midland Bank Limited, London, by The Mitsui Bank Limited, Tokyo, Commemoration of its Fiftieth Anniversary, July 1st 1926. (2)

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