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           PROPERTY OF VARIOUS OWNERS
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           KINKOZAN WORKSHOP                 KINKOZAN WORKSHOP
           A Satsuma jar                     A large cobalt-ground Satsuma vase
           Meiji era (1868-1912), late 19th century   Meiji (1868-1912) or Taisho (1912-1926)
           The compressed ovoid vase with a narrow   era, early 20th century
           mouth and a slightly elongated neck, set on   The baluster vase painted in polychrome
           a ring foot decorated in polychrome enamels,  enamels, silver and gilt on a clear, densely
           gilt, and silver over a clear crackled glaze   crackled ground with two large panels,
           with shaped panels of flowers, birds, and   one featuring Japanese women enjoying
           wisteria on a trellis, bordered by a “bamboo”   blossoming plants in a misty landscape, the
           frame raised in relief, the surrounding silver   other of a spring landscape with a rooster
           ground decorated with scrolling vines in two   and hen feeding near a flowering cherry tree,
           shades of silver, signed Kinkozan kore o   all reserved on a dark cobalt blue ground
           tsukuru, with impressed seal Kinkozan   enriched with an overall pattern of scattered
           7 1/8in (18.1cm) high             gilt and silver blossoms above gilt flowering
                                             scrolls painted below an undulating border
           US$800 - 1,300                    at the shoulder, signed Dai Nihon Kyoto
                                             Kinkozan zo 14 7/8in (37.7cm) high
           Provenance
           Previously sold in these Rooms, March 19   US$7,000 - 9,000
           2013, lot 2339.
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           1284                              TAIZAN FOR THE HODODA WORKSHOP
           KINKOZAN WORKSHOP                 A large Satsuma trumpet vase
           A large Satsuma vase              Meiji era (1868-1912), late 19th century
           Meiji era (1868-1912), late 19th century   Painted in polychrome enamels and gilt with
           The bottle vase with a flared mouth and   a continous design of a samurai procession
           molded on the shoulder to resemble a textile   before a distant castle and Mount Fuji, the
           collar and painted in ploychrome enamels,   ground shaded with gilt stippling, the interior
           gilt, and silver with courtiers enjoying   of the rim painted with a band of jeweled
           cherry blossoms before a curtain, the silver   garlands, signed on the underside in gilt Dai
           ground on the shoulder decorated with   Nihon kosei Satsuma-yaki Hododa sei Taizan
           acanthus leaves and gilt keyfrets and floral   ga
           lozenges and the neck with a drip pattern   15 1/8in (38.3cm) high
           on a “honeycomb” ground, signed on the
           underside Kinkozan tsukuru        US$7,000 - 9,000
           10 5/8in (27cm) high
                                                                                 1285
           US$800 - 1,200

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