Description A LOT WITH THREE MIXED METAL VASES AND A CANDLESTICK, MEIJIJapan, Meiji period (1868-1912)Comprising three bronze baluster-shaped vases raising to waisted necks and everted rims, worked in mixed metal takazogan depicting peonies and sparrows as well as stalks and leaves incised in kebori and katakiri. With a tiered bronze candlestick rising from three beast mask feet set into a circular foot, the middle piece cast with elephant handles and two reserves enclosing birds perched in branches.Condition: Good condition with minor surface wear, tiny nicks, and light surface scratches. One vase with few dents. Provenance: Family collection of either Felix Tikotin (1893-1986) or his son-in-law Louis (Loek) Borensztajn (1935-2021), Netherlands. Felix Tikotin (1893-1986) was an architect, art collector, dealer, and founder of the first Museum of Japanese Art in the Middle East. He became one of the world's leading collectors of Japanese art, starting at the age of 18, and continued to collect and work as an art dealer in Berlin in the 1920s. In the 1930s Felix Tikotin fled from the Nazis and hid his collection in the Netherlands. After the war, he decided that his collection should be taken to Israel, where in 1959 and with the help of Abba Hushi, who was the mayor of Haifa, The Tikotin Museum of Japanese Art was established. The Museum's collection comprises more than 8,000 items of art and crafts.Weight: 985 g in totalDimensions: Height 15.5 – 12 cm