A fine pair of Japanese shibayama silver, ivory and enamelled vases Meiji period each with fluted rim and tall everted necks decorated in coloured enamel above a collar with twin dragon handles and decorated with a quail, a hen and other birds to one side and flowers with butterflies to the other inlaid with shell, mother of pearl, ivory and tortoiseshell on ivory ground, raised on a flaring foot with bracket cut-aways and decorated with further coloured enamel, each signed on the ivory and to the underside (Shizan) and (Masaaki) respectively, 28.5 cm high