An impressive Japanese shibayama ivory tusk vase on stand Meiji period, signed finely inlaid to each side in mother-of-pearl, bamboo, coral and hard stone with a scene of butterflies and a vase on an ornately carved table set with flowering chrysanthemum, prunus and pendant wisteria, the reverse with a scene of swallows in a flowering landscape with a stream, raised on a carved wooden base, together with a pierced and carved foliate and floriate decorated stand, the vase. Height 30 cm, the stand. Height 34 cm