A PAIR OF FACETED GOURD-SHAPED TSUISHU VASES, upper facets carved in tsuishu with birds among flowers and trees, shaped panels at lower body decorated in Shibayama style with birds and flowers, brushes and books by flowering branches, and various festival dancers, the central band decorated in gold hiramakie with hanabishi pattern with stylised flowerheads, the square base decorated in nashiji and okibirame, signed Ozeki sei, late 19th Century