Attributed to Namikawa Yasuyuki (1845-1927) of Kyoto, Meiji era (1868-1912), 1880s Finely worked in silver and gilt wire, each decorated with a matching design of two ho-o birds in flight among meandering sprays of different coloured chrysanthemums on a lightly mottled yellow ground, the shoulder with a circular tightly clustered lobed band enclosing repeated stylised foliate motifs, the domed cover embellished with similar sprays of chrysanthemums and surmounted by a chrysanthemum finial, applied with a gilt brass rim and foot; both unsigned. Each jar: 6cm (2 3/8in) high. (4).