A PAIR OF SMALL SHIBAYAMA STYLE VASES with massed flowerheads ground, each with the gold lacquer ground shoulder decorated in gold hiramakie with chrysanthemum flower and foliage, the body with two shaped panels of gold lacquer ground inlaid in Shibayama style with a bird among wisteria and peonies and a courtier playing a biwa or a heavenly maiden descending on cloud, silver handles and sprayed foot decorated with filgree, unsigned, late 19th Century, each with carved ivory stand