Three pairs of Japanese Kinkozan style Satsuma vases, Meiji period, late 19th century

Three pairs of Japanese Kinkozan style Satsuma vases

Meiji period, late 19th century

the group comprising: a pair of oviform vases, decorated in typical coloured enamels on a crackled cream ground, with pheasants beside peony beneath wisteria, the domed covers with gilt finials; two pairs of smaller vases with similar designs of pheasants beneath plum blossoms, maple, bamboo and wisteria 

height of the largest: 18cm., 7⅛in. high