Miyabe Atsuyoshi: A Fine Pair of Bronze Vases

Miyabe Atsuyoshi: A Fine Pair of Bronze Vases, each of elongated ovoid form resting on a short, splayed foot and rising to a cylindrical neck with everted mouth, each decorated in kebori, katakiribori and iroe taka-zogan with panels of birds disporting themselves amongst the branches of maple, cherry, willow and peony trees, all on a ground of diapers and waves, the neck with a band of sunken relief reserves of mythical creatures, the lip with a gilt key-fret band, signed to the base Kyoto Atsuyoshi with kao, height 39.5cms, Meiji Period