Painted by Ogawa for the Takifuji Company of Yokohama, Meiji era (1868-1912), late 19th/early 20th century Each vase painted in polychrome enamels with a continuous matching design, one vase depicting sparrows perched and in flight among fruiting red-berried branches, its pair with sparrows in flight among flowering lilies, all reserved on a blue ground; each vase signed on the base in iron red Nippon Yokohama Takifuji tsukuru, Ogawa ga. Each vase: 31cm (12¼in) high. (2).