A bronze-mounted stoneware cylindrical vase Meiji era (1868-1912), late 19th/early 20th century The stoneware body applied with thin bronze sheets decorated in gilt high relief with a continuous design of two confronting dragons above rough waters on a russet-brown bronze ground, signed with an unidentified tensho script seal; with a wood storage box. 27.5cm (10¾in) high. (2).