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A SATSUMA VASE AND JAR
By Kinkozan, Meiji era (late 19th century)
Each decorated in polychrome enamels and
gilt on a dark cobalt blue ground, the tapering
body of the first minutely painted with figures
enjoying a summer excursion, reversed by
birds in a flowering landscape, the body with
gilt leafy tendrils, fern fronds and butterflies,
signed and impressed Kinkozan zo; the
second with a wide mouth and two heart-
shaped panels of court figures or insects amid
peony blossoms reserved on a ground of gilt
nadeshiko (wild pinks), signed Kinkozan zo
4 5/8in (10.8cm) height of first
3 3/8in (8.5cm) diameter of second
$1,000 - 1,500

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TWO SATSUMA VASES
The first by Meizan, Meiji era
(late 19th century)
Each decorated in polychrome enamels and
gilt over a clear crackled glaze, the first of
cylindrical form and meticulously painted
with a procession of numerous figures
accompanied by floats of musicians winding
past groups of festival-goers and bracketed
by geometric and foliate-patterned bands,
signed Meizan on the base and in the design;
the second of double-gourd form and
scattered with figural and floral reserves of
various size and shape on a dense brocade-
pattern ground, unsigned
6 1/8 and 8in (15.5 and 20.5cm) high
$1,500 - 2,500

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A PAIR OF SATSUMA VASES
By Meizan, Meiji era (late 19th/
early 20th century)
Of baluster form, each densely painted in
polychrome enamels and gilt on a clear
crackled glaze with two cartouches with
stylized dragon borders containing scenes of
birds and flowers and gatherings of immortals
and their attendants, the surrounding areas
decorated with shikishi panels with precious
articles, brocade swathes, theater masks
and decorative lozenges of floral brocade,
among scattered blossoms and leaves and
gilt stippling, the foot finished with formal
lappets above a cracked ice pattern and the
shoulders and neck with similar elements
above brocade and honeycomb bands, the
interior rim with a band of chrysanthemum
heads and cracked ice, signed in gilt Meizan
7 1/8in (18.1cm) high
$5,000 - 7,000

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