A pair of Japanese bronze pear-shaped vases with flaring necks decorated in relief with flowering irises issuing from water -- 11½.in.high; a bronze ovoid vase decorated with three panels depicting a coiled dragon, a karashishi and cranes in flight, on a stylised key-pattern ground -- 8½.in.high; an onlaid bronze vase decorated with a bird in flight among flowering branches -- 6.in.high; and a gilt-bronze tapering pear-shaped vase -- 9.in.high. (5)