A SMALL JAPANESE VASE BY TAIZAN MEIJI ERA, 19TH/20TH CENTURY With a bulbous body and a tall, slightly flaring neck, decorated with two birds in flight and with flowers beside them, rendered in polychrome and gilt on the graduated mustard-yellow ground; the neck embellished with brocade patterns, the base signed Dai Nihon Taizan sei and with an impressed mark, 18cm.