A PAIR OF JAPANESE CLOISONNE VASES MEIJI ERA, 19TH CENTURY Both of baluster shape and decorated with sparrows in flight, large chrysanthemum blooms and small daisies on a dark blue ground, with bands of formal designs and flowerheads to the rims, each vase with an impressed mark underneath depicting a single character in a five-petalled flower, both 18.8cm. (2)