Pair of antique Japanese patinated bronze koro by Harusada

Each model standing on a base consisting of a circular ring surmounted by openwork-cast birds and budding plum trees, the bodies cast with peacocks, hawks, and ho-o birds with rushing torrents and pine trees. The lids are decorated with a band of openwork floral ornament and a formalised ring of clouds surmounted by a male and female ho-o bird on a rock from which small kiri (paulownia) trees grow. There is a cast signature inside each vessel 'Dai Nihon Osaka Hasegawa Harusada saku'.