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6228 PROPERTY FROM A NORTH AMERICAN ESTATE
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6230 A LARGE SATSUMA VASE
Meiji era (1868-1912), late 19th century
6231 Painted in colored enamels and gilt on a clear crackled glaze with
various types of flowering chrysanthemums issuing from a woven
fence with an undulating contour, the waisted neck with a trompe-
l'oeil fabric square with stylized folds and scattered with Shimazu and
Tokugawa family crests, signed Ryozan with two seals
14in (35.5cm) high
US$1,000 - 1,500
The reading of the signature is based on Louis Lawrence, Satsuma,
The Romance of Japan, California, Meiji Satsuma Publications, 2011,
p. 243, fig. 148.
6229
A LARGE STUDIO CERAMIC JAR
Meiji era (1868-1912), late 19th century
Decorated in colored enamels and gilt over a clear glaze with poem
cards framing one of the Rokkasen (Six Immortal Poets), each of the
figures raised in relief and superimposed over another card inscribed
with a poem, all reserved on a ground of Genji symbols accompanied
by cranes amid flowering paulownia and set within two wide bands
of linked blossoms on a dark blue ground, the thick everted rim with
a foliate band penciled in gilt over red enamel, the pedestal base with
another gilt-accented band above a wide red enamel band incised
with a key-fret pattern, the wide mouth fitted with a silver-washed
metal cover formed by a reticulated multi-petaled blossom encircled by
a repoussé band of the Tokugawa family crest amid auspicious objects
and chrysanthemum blossoms, unsigned
16in (40.7cm) high [excluding the cover]
US$1,500 - 2,500
PROPERTY OF VARIOUS OWNERS
6230
KINKOZAN WORKSHOP
A cobalt-ground Satsuma vase
Meiji era (1868-1912), late 19th century
Of baluster form and decorated in colored enamels and gilt on a clear,
crackled glaze with two large panels of beauties watching young men
joust and courtiers confronted by warriors on a palatial veranda, the
surrounding areas decorated with tightly scrolling vines and flowers
and stylized lozenges in low relief, all on a cobalt ground, effaced
signature Kinkozan tsukuri
15in (38cm) high
US$4,000 - 6,000
6231
KENSAI
A large Satsuma vase
Meiji (1868-1912) or Taisho era (1912-1926), early 20th century
The large baluster vase decorated in colored enamels and gilt on a
clear, densely crackled ground with a bold design of bamboo, plum,
pine and thistles, the shoulder with a band of clouds, signed on the
underside Satsuma Kensai and with Shimazu mark
18 5/8in (47.3cm) high
US$5,000 - 7,000
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