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BIZAN: LANDSCAPES
AND BEAUTIFUL
LADIES
Glazed ceramic with
paint and gold. Japan,
Meiji period
Quadratic, four-legged
lidded vessel with
two handles. All four
sides bear images.
Two sansui landscapes
with mountains, huts
and water. Another of
the paintings features
a lady observing the
landscape together
with her children. The
fourth image is full of
figures and depicts
bijin ladies picknicking
in front of a building,
a stone lamp (ishidoro)
in the background. The 58 59
four-edged, vaulted lid KOZAN: SATSUMA PLATE WITH FIGURAL SCENE KYOKUZAN: LIDDED SATSUMA JAR WITH KANNON
has a knob and floral Glazed ceramic with paint and gold. Japan, Meiji era Glazed ceramic with paint and gold. Japan, Meiji period
open work. Very fine
nishikide decoration Ladies and gentlemen in a loose group sitting on the On the slightly vaulted lid are, seated before the Bodhisattva, or
features, among other floor, all splendidly dressed. Around them are bonsai, rather the Goddess Kannon, several rakkan with their holy, golden
things, tomo-e and tables with vessels and flowers, as well as a small folding nimbuses. Among them are two female beings and a boy. The
lightning-bolt meander. screen featuring a blood-red sunrise, and a large, multi- outside features purely landscape, sansui-style painting. Inside, on
On the bottom is the panel screen with writing. In addition, a winter landscape the bottom of the bowl is a red peony blossom. Inside the foot
signature BI-ZAN ⁁Ⱉ. is also depicted along with various, heavy curtains. On ring, beneath the satsuma cross are the characters for the name
the bottom is the signature KO-ZAN ⿺Ⱉ against a black KYOKU-ZAN 㖕 Ⱉ, which literally means “dawn at the mountain”.
HEIGHT 11.5 CM, SIDES background.
8.5 x 8.5 CM (without DIAMETER 6.5 CM, HEIGHT 4.1 CM
55 handles) DIAMETER 12.8 CM
SENRITSU (?): SATSUMA VASE WITH Condition: Very well preserved
BLOSSOMING FIELD Condition: Very well Condition: Very well preserved Provenance: From an Austrian private collection
Glazed ceramic with paint and gold. Japan, Meiji preserved Provenance: From an Austrian private collection
period Provenance: From Estimate EUR 200,-
an Austrian private Estimate EUR 200,- Starting price EUR 100,-
Vase similar in form to the Chinese meiping. 56 collection Starting price EUR 100,-
Beautiful, arched curve, marked shoulder, no neck, SHOKOZAN: A DEEP SATSUMA BOWL
the bulging lip protruding. Running around the Glazed ceramic with paint and gold. Japan, Meiji Estimate EUR 200,-
vase is the painting of a willow (yanagi), the deeply period Starting price EUR 100,- 60
hanging branches full of red blossoms. All contours SHUZAN: A DEEP SATSUMA BOWL
in gold. On the bottom is the framed signature SEN- Extremely fine piece with figural scenes, blossoms Glazed ceramic with paint and gold. Japan, Meiji period
RITSU ⶅ 㞿 tsukuru 忈 (a third character, after ritsu, and a mountainous landscape. On the outside are
is unclear). ladies with their children on a walk through the The edge is recessed at five points, the lip gilded. In the well,
spring landscape, the first blossoms on the knotted young ladies are depicted with their playing sons who are, for
HEIGHT 18.7 CM branches. Inside, in the well, is a dense blossom example, trying to catch a butterfly. Also featured is a dwelling;
composition and, on the walls, many playing lake and mountains in the background. The borders around the
Condition: Restored break on the lip children and only one lady carrying her son. The edge are geometric and floral, intricate and extremely fine. On
Provenance: From an Austrian private collection borders are densely ornamental with gold on a dark the outside are flying insects, above which is a dense composition
red background. On the bottom is the Shimazu of blossoms in the most varied of colors. The upper border
Estimate EUR 200,- family crest and the signature SHO-KO-ZAN 䱦 ⶏ with “thunder pattern” is in the style of Chinese leiwen. On the
Starting price EUR 100,- Ⱉ on a red background. bottom is the Shimazu family crest as well as the framed signature
SHU-ZAN 䎈 Ⱉ.
HEIGHT 6.3 CM, DIAMETER 12.2 CM
HEIGHT 6.6 CM, DIAMETER 15.6 CM
Condition: Good condition
Provenance: From an Austrian private collection Condition: Very well preserved
Provenance: From an Austrian private collection
Estimate EUR 200,-
Starting price EUR 100,- Estimate EUR 200,-
Starting price EUR 100,-

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