An opposite pair of Kutani vases, Meiji period, 1880-1900, mark of Kutani and maker, baluster vases with waisted necks and faux lion's head ring handles, finely, decorated to one face with a reserve featuring a woman and child in a garden, setting, two birds amidst flora to the reverse, with brocaded borders and embellishments throughout in the typical iron red palette, characters, underside, height 36.5 cm