By Takeuchi Chubei of Nagoya for the Shippo Gaisha Company, Meiji era (1868-1912), late 19th/early 20th century Each worked in gilt wire and decorated with an identical all-over design of fantastical creatures frolicking among stylised trailing flowers on an aubergine ground, the mouth painted in underglaze blue with a stylised foliate garland; each signed on the base in gilt Dai Nippon Seizo Shippo Gaisha kojin Takeuchi Chubei (Made by Takeuchi Chubei for the Shippo Gaisha Company, Great Japan). Each vase: 37cm (14½in) high. (2).