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46 glaze. The gilded mouth has
45 TWO SATSUMA BOWLS five leaf-shaped points. Inside
TWO LIDDED SATSUMA The second a spherical lidded Glazed ceramic with paint and are two bijin (beautiful ladies)
VESSELS, ONE KINKOZAN vessel on three stubby legs, gold. Japan, Meiji period and a boy in a garden in front
WORKSHOP meticulously decorated. of a lookout pavilion with
Glazed ceramic with paint and Running around it is a scene on The first bowl with a hexagonal lanterns. Towards the mouth
gold. Japan, Meiji period a river bank with about ninety mouth. On the outside of the and on the outside, painted in
figures, both female and male. round walls are alternating gold, are blossoms and tendrils
The first exceedingly finely Two arched handles; vaulted holy rakkan with golden halos as well as a wavy border inside
decorated, spherical vessel lid with two openings, the and bijin, female “beauties”, a frame. On the bottom are
on three legs, the curved feet knob and area surrounding it each of the figures seated the characters for the name
separated by cut-out, arched a very golden chrysanthemum. in a diamond-shaped space. SHUZAN 䎈 Ⱉ.
sections. On the body are The detailed and varying Inside the bowl is a scene full
eight slanted, rectangular nishikide decoration has been of figures in front of a temple DIAMETER 8.8 CM, HEIGHT
fields filled with depictions executed with great care. On complex, a pagoda tower and 4 CM and DIAMETER 7.8 CM,
of various landscapes in the the recessed bottom is the mountains in the background. HEIGHT 3.7 CM 48
style of Hiroshige’s Tokaido signature SHOZAN 㬋Ⱉ. The border around the mouth KENZAN: PAIR OF SATSUMA 49
series, some featuring people. features a lined, triangular Condition: Very well preserved VASES HODODA: PAIR OF
The handle is in the shape of HEIGHT 9.5 CM and 7.4 CM pattern; hanging into the Provenance: From an Austrian Glazed ceramic with paint and SMALL HEXAGONAL
halved kiku blossoms. On the image are uneven surfaces with private collection gold. Japan, Meiji era SATSUMA VASES
powerfully vaulted golden lid Condition: Very well preserved spiral patterns. On the bottom, Glazed ceramic with
are three cutout heart shapes Provenance: From an Austrian below the satsuma cross, is the Estimate EUR 300,- Ovoid form with a rippled, paint and gold. Japan,
as well as a knob in the shape private collection signature HODODA ᾅ ⛇ 䓘. Starting price EUR 150,- outwardly flared mouth. Both Meiji period
of a seated shishi. On the vases feature two large framed
bottom is the name KINKOZAN Estimate EUR 300,- The second small, black-blue fields with somewhat different On the outside is a scene
拎 ⃱ Ⱉ. Starting price EUR 150,- bowl with a beautiful, shiny painting. Each has a figural exclusively populated
scene with a royal figure and by many bijin beauties
entourage. The other image is a in extremely varied
a lookout pavilion, as well as The lip of the flared mouth nice, poetic-romantically painted clothing, in front of
water and boats. The other is gilded. Beneath a tree, the landscape with mountains, huts, a temple complex,
scene features multiple bijin branches of which extend river and huts. The filler spaces steep cliff walls and a
along with some girls. The downwards, sit two bijin in a have blossoms and tendrils waterfall. Two of the
filler spaces are decorated field, two “beauties”. Their in gold against a dark-blue fields in between are
with nishikide, the neck with a loose robes have finely painted background. On the bottom decoratively designed
composition of blossoms. golden patterns. In the foot, are the characters for the name with golden patterns, as
which is surrounded by a wavy KEN-ZAN ᷚⰙ. is the shoulder area too.
The second of very distinctive border, and below the satsuma On the flat mouth is a
form on a tall, widely flared cross are the characters for the HEIGHT 12.4 - 12.7 CM radial line pattern. On
foot. The picturesque decoration name SHUZAN 䎈 Ⱉ. the bottom of each vase
features a composition with Condition: One in good is the signature HO-DO-
numerous blossoms, many HEIGHT 6.4 – 9 CM condition, the other with a very DA ᾅ ⛇ 䓘.
painted in red and gold, well restored break
which runs around the vase. Condition: Good condition Provenance: From an Austrian HEIGHT (EACH) 9.2 CM
The borders have geometric Provenance: From an Austrian private collection
patterning. On the bottom is private collection Condition:
the signature GYOKUZAN 䌱 Ⱉ Estimate EUR 400,- Very well preserved
47 painted in gold. Estimate EUR 300,- Starting price EUR 200,- Provenance: From
THREE SATSUMA VASES Starting price EUR 150,- an Austrian private
Glazed ceramic with paint and gold. Japan, Meiji period The last small vase, collection
approximately ovoid in shape.
The first small vase features two different miniature paintings. In Estimate EUR 400,-
one is a sansui-style landscape with a tall cliff, on top of which is Starting price EUR 200,-

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