A pair of bronze baluster vases Meiji era (1868-1912), late 19th/early 20th century Each vase decorated with a matching and continuous design of chidori (plovers or dotterels) in flight above spumy waves, the birds applied in bronze and silver high relief, the shoulder engraved with confronted rain dragons, each signed on the base with chiselled characters Dai Nippon Saikyo Yoshida [...] do; Shinsodo saku. Each vase: 28.5cm (11¼in) high. (2).