A Small Parcel-Gilt Bronze Figure and Two Bronze Vases Meiji period (late 19th century), the first vase signed Sei'un ; the second vase signed Hidemitsu kan sei The figure cast as a chubby-cheeked boy looking up as he stands with a travelling sack and sandals draped around his neck, his robes decorated with vines and family crests, wood stand with gold-lacquer scrolling vines; the first vase flattened, compressed ovoid with a square neck and designed with lobed panels of blossoming plum trees and bamboo and irises in sunken and low relief with inlays of shakudo and copper, the neck flush-inlaid with a floret and vines in copper, gold and shakudo ; the second vase of elongated baluster form with a bird in a cherry tree in high relief, eyes highlighted with gold 8½in. (21.6cm.) high (with stand); 10¾in. (27.3cm.); 9 5/8in. (24.4cm.) high (3)
A Small Parcel-Gilt Bronze Figure and Two Bronze Vases Meiji period (late 19th century), the first vase signed Sei'un ; the second vase signed Hidemitsu kan sei The figure cast as a chubby-cheeked boy looking up as he stands with a travelling sack and sandals draped around his neck, his robes decorated with vines and family crests, wood stand with gold-lacquer scrolling vines; the first vase flattened, compressed ovoid with a square neck and designed with lobed panels of blossoming plum trees and bamboo and irises in sunken and low relief with inlays of shakudo and copper, the neck flush-inlaid with a floret and vines in copper, gold and shakudo ; the second vase of elongated baluster form with a bird in a cherry tree in high relief, eyes highlighted with gold 8½in. (21.6cm.) high (with stand); 10¾in. (27.3cm.); 9 5/8in. (24.4cm.) high (3)
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