A JAPANESE CLOISONNE VASE BY OTA KICHISABURO MEIJI ERA, 19TH OR 20TH CENTURY The rectangular-section body decorated with two colourful doves perched on a flowering prunus tree, the reverse with further branches on the deep midnight-blue ground; the shoulder with a complex design of lappets enclosing flowers and other formal designs, a band of geometric patterns above the foot and to the neck, the base with an impressed mark reading O Kichi for Ota Kichisaburo, 15.2cm.