A pair of cloisonné-enamel moriage baluster vases mounted as lampsBy Kawade Shibataro, Meiji era (1868-1912), late 19th/early 20th century
Each worked in silver wire and coloured enamels with leafy entwined trailing branches of blooming wisteria with a single branch curling around the body on a graduated pale grey to green ground, the neck and foot with a narrow band of geometric motifs, applied with silver rims and foot rims, each signed on the base in silver wire Kawade within a gourd seal; each vase on a separate pierced wood stand. Each vase: 47cm (18½in) high; each stand: 7.6cm x 18cm (3in x 7 1/16in). (4).