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YABU MEIZAN (1853-1934)
A fine miniature Satsuma vase
Meiji era (1868-1912), late 19th century
The elongated ovoid vase with a flaring neck and slightly splayed foot
decorated in colored enamels and gilt over a clear, crackled glaze with
a humorous scene of a parade of monkeys in a daimyo procession,
the leader riding a deer while his retainers accompany him on foot
carrying panniers, standards bearing blossoming flowers and fruit, and
the leader's boots on a tray, each of the monkeys dressed in jinbaori
(military jackets), the shoulder painted with a collar of chrysanthemum
heads beneath a profusion of butterflies, the foot with floral lappets,
signed on the underside Yabu Meizan
4 3/8in (11.2cm) high

US$6,000 - 8,000

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PROPERTY FROM AN ARIZONA COLLECTION

6242
YABU MEIZAN (1853-1934)
A fine miniature Satsuma jar and cover
Meiji era (1868-1912), late 19th century
Of square section with slightly tapering sides meticulously painted in
colored enamels and gilt on a clear crackled glaze with four panels
variously depicting a daimyo procession, mandarin ducks in a snowy
landscape, a distant view of a fishing village along a waterway or
sparrows perched on a bamboo trellis supporting flowering peonies, all
within patterned border bands and below alternating panels of cherry
or millefleur on the low rounded shoulder, the short cylindrical neck
ringed by a geometric band repeated on the fitted cover with a knob
finial and decorated en suite, signed on the underside Yabu Meizan in
a gilt cartouche 4 1/4in (10.8cm) high

US$15,000 - 25,000

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