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A LARGE SATSUMA VASE AND COVER
After Yabu Meizan, Meiji era (1868-1912), late 19th century
Of baluster form set on a splayed foot, applied with large upturned
handles and decorated in polychrome enamels and gilt on a clear
crackled ground with a continuous scene of figures harvesting rice
in a lakeside village, a mountainous landscape in the distance,
the foot and collar painted with formal lappet and keyfret bands
and the handles with geometric patterns, the cover painted with a
continuation of the geometric designs and pierced on the sides with
gourd-shaped apertures and applied with a finial modeled as a shishi
with a brocade ball, inscribed on the underside in gilt Meizan
With a wood storage box
10 5/8in (27cm) high
US$10,000 - 15,000
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