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A PAIR OF SMALL OVOID ELONGATED SATSUMA VASES
By Yabu Meizan (1853-1934), Meiji era (1868-1912),
late 19th/early 20th century
Finely decorated in enamels and gilt with a complementary design,
each body with three horizontal bands each enclosing a different
design, the upper section depicting women and children engaged in
the processes of weaving cloth from hand-spinning thread to weaving
on a loom, the central band with boats on a lake before distant
mountains and a village in the foreground, the lower section painted
with alternating spiral bands of chrysanthemums heads and butterflies,
the foot and rim with a narrow band of repeated geometric patterns;
each signed on the base with a gilt seal Yabu Meizan.
Each vase 12cm (4¾in) high. (2).

£5,000 - 7,000
JPY760,000 - 1,100,000
US$7,100 - 9,900

For details of the charges payable in addition to the final Hammer Price of each Lot
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