A pair of Japanese cloisonne tapering oviform vases with short flaring necks decorated in silverwire with cranes below flowering peony trees on a dark blue ground between bands lappets and stiff leaves to the foot and rim (one with small scratch and minute bruise) -- 7¼.in.high, signed Ota Kichisaburo, wood stands and fitted wood box; and a Japanese cloisonne slender tapering oviform vase decorated in gold and silver wire with birds in flight among bamboo branches on a grey-green ground -- 5.in.high, signed Ota Kichisaburo.