MEIJI PERIOD
Details
A pair of bronze vases
Meiji period
Cast in relief and decorated in hirazogan and takazogan, each main side with a pair of dragons around a tama surrounded by foliage and cloud scrolls, below a row of petal panels and key-fret-pattern band to the slightly flaring rim, the long scroll-handles and feet modelled as stylized beasts, the base inscribed Dainihon Teikoku Shuppinjin Seki Heizo (exhibited by Seki Heizo of the Empire of Great Japan); Zojin No-no-kami Kinryu (made by No-no-kami Kinryu)
50.5 cm high (2)
Meiji period
Cast in relief and decorated in hirazogan and takazogan, each main side with a pair of dragons around a tama surrounded by foliage and cloud scrolls, below a row of petal panels and key-fret-pattern band to the slightly flaring rim, the long scroll-handles and feet modelled as stylized beasts, the base inscribed Dainihon Teikoku Shuppinjin Seki Heizo (exhibited by Seki Heizo of the Empire of Great Japan); Zojin No-no-kami Kinryu (made by No-no-kami Kinryu)
50.5 cm high (2)