A Japanese bronze slender tapering vase with mask loop handles, pierced gilt-metal gallery to the neck and elephant mask feet, hirazogan and takazogan with a fan-shaped panel of a seated and standing warrior on a bridge before trees and mountains, the reverse with an eagle on the trunk of a prunus tree before a mountainous river landscape, on a ground of ho-o and stylised maple, the neck decorated with stylised confronted dragons chasing flaming pearls -- 18¼in.high.