Meiji era (1868-1912), late 19th/early 20th century Each worked in silver and gilt wire with a matching design of shijukara (Japanese tits) perched and flying among flowering chrysanthemums and clematis with entwined leafy branches extending up toward the tall flared neck, all reserved on a pale grey-blue ground, supported on circular foot decorated with roundels enclosing geometric motifs; each vase unsigned. 24cm (9½in) high. (2).