PAIR OF "USUBATA" VASES in bronze with a brown patina, of circular form, in the shape of a bowl with a large flat pavilion, on a high foot rising from a base depicting a rock with a pair of pheasants on it, the vessel decorated in slight relief with a lakescape animated by a boat and a pavilion housing two scholars. Signed on the base, in a large poly-lobed cartouche, "Hasegawa settsu daijô Harusada saku". (Misses, firing defects). Japan, Meiji period (1868-1912), circa 1880. A PAIR OF BRONZE "USUBATA" INCENSE-BURNERS, SIGNED, JAPAN, MEIJI PERIOD (1868-1912), CA. 1880. HEIGHT. 23 CM (9 1/16 IN.)