TWO JAPANESE MIXED-METAL VASES

TWO JAPANESE MIXED-METAL VASES
MEIJI ERA, 19TH/20TH CENTURY

The tallest with a pear-shaped body and raised on a flared foot, decorated with flowers in low relief, rendered in silver and shakudō on a copper ground, 18.5cm; the other with two figures under umbrellas caught in a storm, with a lightning bolt above, signed Hidekuni koku to the side and with another minute mark underneath, 12cm. (2)