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KENZAN: SATSUMA VASE WITH WISEMEN
Glazed ceramic with paint and gold. Japan, Meiji era
Ovoid form on a flush foot, short neck with beaded,
flared lip. Two large medallion fields with lobed-
pointed contours. The scenes are full of figures
and depict bearded wisemen, some of whom are
surrounded by smaller figures (children?). The other
image features musicians, one of the bearded men
dancing, some drinking. In the background are
old pine trees and a splashing waterfall. The filler
spaces have golden motifs against a shiny dark-
blue background. On the bottom is the following
inscription inside a heart-shaped contour: on the
right, KEN-ZAN ᷚⰙ, in the middle, Satsumayaki
啑 㐑 䃤 (Satsuma ceramic); on the left, Toki 昞☐
(ceramic), as well as the Shimazu family crest.

HEIGHT 19.6 CM

Condition: Very well preserved
Provenance: From an Austrian private collection
Estimate EUR 500,-
Starting price EUR 250,-

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FUKUBE: A SMALL SATSUMA VASE HODODA: A SMALL SATSUMA VASE RYOZAN: AMIDA BUTSU AND
Glazed ceramic with paint and gold. WITH SAINTS VENERATORS
Japan, Meiji period Glazed ceramic with paint and gold. Glazed ceramic with paint and gold.
Japan, Meiji period Japan, Meiji period
Small, four-sided vase with curved and
flared foot and mouth. In the four fields Small, shouldered vase; the neck and Two large framed images, in one of
are various figural scenes, minutely mouth atop the flat shoulder very small. which is the Buddha Amitabha, called
painted with considerable gold. Samurai Depicted inside two large fields are Amida Butsu in Japan, enthroned before a
in armor, ladies - some with children bodhisattvas or goddesses, surrounded golden nimbus with a group of venerators
- in front of buildings, royally dressed by numerous rakkan, arhat in Sanskrit, before him. The other painting features
people conversing. In the background the Buddha’s successors. The detailed an expansive scene with many people in
51 of each field is a landscape. Otherwise, decoration consists of intricate “brocade front of a temple complex and a mountain
KINKOZAN: BELL-SHAPED LIDDED SATSUMA the decoration is detailed, geometric to style” (nishikide) with considerable gold. ridge in the background. The borders
VESSEL floral and features considerable gold. The On the bottom the Shimazu family crest and filler spaces feature extremely fine
Glazed ceramic with paint and gold. Japan, Meiji era signature FUKU-BE 㚵 悐 zo 忈 (made and the signature HO-DO-DA ᾅ ⛇ 䓘. nishikide, the patterns floral, geometric or
this) is written in red. Very well preserved. composed of the Chinese leiwen meander.
Unusual, small vessel; the background decoration HEIGHT 9.5 CM On the bottom is the Shimazu family crest
in slight relief consists of a very dense composition HEIGHT 14.5 CM and the partially fragmentary inscription
with kiku blossoms (chrysanthemums), the color an Condition: Very well preserved SATSU-MA 啑 㐑 with RYO-ZAN ⵢ Ⱉ ga
exceedingly beautiful, shiny silvery gray-blue, also Condition: Good condition with a very Provenance: From an Austrian private 䓣 (painted it) to its left.
featured on the concavely indented, knobbed lid. well restored break on the lip collection
There are two fan-shaped fields, in one of which HEIGHT 12.3 CM
is a samurai in armor, while the other presents a Provenance: Once acquired from the Estimate EUR 200,-
beautiful bijin in front of a tree in full blossom in Galerie Zacke in Vienna - corresponding Starting price EUR 100,- Condition: Good condition
the foreground and, behind her, some men. On the label on the bottom Provenance: From an Austrian private
bottom is the signature (made by …) KIN-KO-ZAN collection
拎 ⃱ Ⱉ zo 忈. Estimate EUR 200,-
Starting price EUR 100,- Estimate EUR 200,-
HEIGHT 8.8 CM Starting price EUR 100,-
Condition: Very well preserved
Provenance: From an important Austrian private
collection, acquired before 1930
Estimate EUR 500,-
Starting price EUR 250,-

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