A fine cloisonné-enamel vase Meiji (1868-1912) or Taisho (1912-1926) era, circa 1900 The elongated ovoid vase worked in colored enamels and gold and silver standard and sculpted wires with a pair of long-tailed birds in blossoming prunus, the foot decorated with floral lappet band and geometric lozenges and the neck with a collar of chrysanthemums and paulownia , all against a black ground, the rims silver, signed on a silver tablet Kin'unken tsukuru With a fitted wood stand and the original wood storage box with a padded interior 8 3/8in (22.2cm) high