A pair of Japanese gilt-bronze tapering oviform vases

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A pair of Japanese gilt-bronze tapering oviform vases
with lion-head and loose-ring handles, decorated in iroe hirazogan and takazogan with figures seated on rockwork below insects in flight among flowering branches, the reverses with further birds and foliage, the rims with bands of lappets and formal flowersprays -- 15.in (38.1cm) high, (rubbed).
See Colour Plate. (2)

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