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  A fine pair of Japanese bronze vases, now as lamps.

Meiji period
H: 17¼ in / 44 cm
W: 8 in / 20½ cm
Stock Number: 83123/sum08
£8,500

A fine pair of Japanese bronze vases each with a baluster body, which have been converted to a superb pair of lamps. The vases bear a rich brown patination and are inlaid in high relief to both sides, one side of the vases are decorated with cranes amongst leaves and the other side with butterflies amongst chrysanthemums and bamboo, all naturalistically worked and richly patinated in gold, silver and copper.