A PAIR OF JAPANESE MOTHER-OF-PEARL INLAID LACQUERED PORCELAIN VASES MOUNTED AS LAMPS
LATE 19TH CENTURY
The porcelain bodies each set with colored nacre fragments forming vibrant scenes of pheasants and flowering prunus on a black lacquer ground, below a ruffled rim and atop a flaring black lacquered wood foot, together with two fabric flaring shades
20 in. (50.8 cm.) high, to the rims of the vases
A PAIR OF JAPANESE MOTHER-OF-PEARL INLAID LACQUERED PORCELAIN VASES MOUNTED AS LAMPS
LATE 19TH CENTURY
The porcelain bodies each set with colored nacre fragments forming vibrant scenes of pheasants and flowering prunus on a black lacquer ground, below a ruffled rim and atop a flaring black lacquered wood foot, together with two fabric flaring shades
20 in. (50.8 cm.) high, to the rims of the vases