Pair of bronze baluster vases Japanese, Meiji period with elephant head handles, the body with four uchiwa fan shaped panels decorated in relief with varied scenes of ducks and various birds perched and flying on and around various trees and flowers, the waisted neck with palmette panels, the wide mouth rim embossed with flower heads and foliage, foot with lotus leaf style palmate border, signed Dai Nippon Kitsuda Zo Kyoto within an elaborate rectangular panel within a foliate frame 19cm high