A pair of late Kutani (Kaga ware) vases | Signed Kutani Setsuzan | Meiji period, late 19th century

A pair of late Kutani (Kaga ware) vases

Signed Kutani Setsuzan

Meiji period, late 19^th century 

each oviform with everted necks, decorated in gold and iron red on a black ground, with birds in branches of plum, pine and bamboo forming the Three Friends of Winter (shochikubai) and rockwork, the interior with crackled cream ground, gilt rims

each 37.5 cm., 14¾ in. high