TWO JAPANESE BRONZE IKEBANA VASES MEIJI/TAISHO PERIODS Both with tall slender bodies

TWO JAPANESE BRONZE IKEBANA VASES

MEIJI/TAISHO PERIODS

Both with tall slender bodies, one with with a rough surface imitating Bizen pottery ware, with two small frogs clambering up the side, an oval mark above the foot and with a two character seal mark to the base, the other decorated in mixed metals with scrolling tendrils, warabi (edible ferns), a small butterfly above, both 30cm.(2)

Provenance: both from a Spanish private collection, Madrid. The vase with frogs purchased from the Kyoto Gallery, Brussels, on 15th December 2000. The other vase from Katie Jones Oriental Art, London, in the 1990s.