A Japanese Midnight-Blue cloisonne vase and another, late Meiji and mid 20th century comprising a small ovoid midnight-blue cloisonne vase with silver wire, decorated to one side with a sparrow on a blossoming sakura (cherry) tree above sprouting chrysanthemum, signed sato sei to, the underside, together with a metalwork bud vase decorated with a lakeside view and mount Fuji, unmarked. Height 16.5 cm, and 9.5 cm