Antique pair of Japanese Meiji period cloisonné enamel vases with French gilt bronze mounts

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These delicate antique vases are of elegant ovoid form raised on gilt bronze elephant feet and featuring a with a pierced gilt bronze (ormolu) rim and scrolling handles; the pair are modelled with depictions on Oriental figures and decorated throughout with birds, flowers and foliage.

The enamel Japanese, the ormolu French, both late 19th Century

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