By the Komai Company of Kyoto, Meiji era (1868-1912), late 19th/early 20th century Each vase worked throughout in typical Komai style of predominantly flat gold and silver overlay with extensive use of kebori for the details, lavishly decorated with complementary scenes (two on each vase) depicting a writhing dragon and a Kyoto temple complex within a silver-outlined panel on a ground scattered with kikumon (chrysanthemum crests) among fragmented rinzu (textile-weave), the shoulder and bottom with fruiting vine, each supported on a scalloped foot; each vase signed on the base Dai Nihon Kyoto no ju Komai sei. Each vase: 12.5cm (5in) high. (2).