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A JAPANESE SATSUMA BOWL BY KINZAN
MEIJI PERIOD, 19 OR 20 CENTURY
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With a foliate rim and decorated in gilt and polychrome, the well with two
large rats gnawing at a feather and with a third one in the distance, the rim
richly painted with brocade patterns, the outside with scattered branches of
coral and the foot surrounded by lappets with further brocade patterns and
scrolling tendrils, the base signed Kinzan in a square reserve, 15.1cm dia.
£1,200-1,500

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A JAPANESE SATSUMA DISH BY KOBAYASHI KEIZAN
MEIJI PERIOD, 19 CENTURY
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Decorated in gilt and polychrome with many different birds in a luxuriant
river landscape, the chickens, ducks, swallows and tits surrounded by an
abundance of flowers, with peonies, chrysanthemum, prunus, hibiscus and
many other flowers painted in a profusion of colours, the rim with a band of
key fret, the reverse with three large clusters of butterflies and an elaborate
signature for Kobayashi Keizan in two colourful reserves surrounded with
branches of maple leaves, 24.7cm.
£1,000-2,000
Provenance: an English private collection of Satsuma wares, Wiltshire. Purchased
from Sotheby’s London, 12th November 2002, lot 262; a copy of the original
receipt is available.

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A JAPANESE SATSUMA DISH BY FUJISAN
MEIJI PERIOD, 19 CENTURY
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Decorated in gilt and polychrome, the well with a large flower-shaped panel
enclosing two beauties and three children on a veranda, one woman seated
at a low table with a scroll painting before her, a blossoming prunus tree
above them and a meandering stream beyond, on a dark navy-blue ground
painted in gilt with chrysanthemum flowerheads and scrolling tendrils, the
rim with a border containing scale-like patterns, the underside with a deep
blue glaze and the base signed Fujisan zo in a square cartouche, 18.4cm.
£800-1,200

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