Two inlaid-bronze conical vases


By Miyabe Atsuyoshi of Kyoto for the Hamada Company, Meiji (1868-1912) era, late 19th/early 20th century, circa 1890sEach worked on the body with an almost identical design in silver, bronze and shakudo low-relief relay, depicting a flock of cranes in flight and others standing in a lotus pond beside windswept reeds embellished here and there with silver dewdrops, the neck and rim decorated in silver flat relief with repeated geometric, diaper, fragmented rinzu (textile-weave) and shippo-hanabishi (flowery-diamond linked-jewels); each signed on the base with chiselled signature Dai Nihon Hamada sei Saikyo no junin Atsuyoshi tsukuru (made by Atsuyoshi of Kyoto for Hamada in Great Japan). Each vase 25.7cm (10 1/8in) high. (2).