JAPAN, Meiji era (1868-1912) - Lot 27

JAPAN, Meiji era (1868-1912) Pair of large bronze baluster vases with chased and inlaid gold, silver and shakudo decoration, showing pairs of phoenixes facing each other at the neck between geometrical friezes (stylized leaves and Greek foliage above, rosettes below), the handles emerging from phoenix heads, the body decorated on one side with four doves pecking under a tree in blossom (on both vases), and on the other side the famous episode of the hunt near Mount Fuji (the scene divided between the two vases), during which Nitta Shirô (Tadatsune) jumped on a huge boar and killed it (left vase), to save lord Minamoto no Yoritomo, here on his horse (right vase). H. 60 cm LDM Electric mounting, missing inlays (shakudo).