Nogawa Workshop - A pair of Bronze Vases with Egrets

A pair of inlaid bronze vases each of baluster form worked in silver and gilt and carved with egrets amongst large stems of flowering lotus showing the beauty if nature in its various stages of decay, the necks inlaid in shibuichi and gilt with a stylised band of paulownia.

Signed with the Nogawa seal

Height: 30.5cm

Meiji period, circa 1880



£12,500