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A LARGE SATSUMA VASE
By Yabu Meizan, Taisho era (circa 1918)
The elongated ovoid vase tapering to the foot and delicately painted in polychrome enamels
and gilt over a clear, crackled glaze with a variety of large chrysanthemum blossoms, each
accurately rendered in fine detail with the stamens and some of the petals raised in relief, the
foot painted with stylized beast masks contained within square reserves, the rim painted with
a band of dots within circles punctuated by partial chrysanthemum heads, gilt signature Yabu
Meizan within a double reserve on underside
9 3/4in (24.8cm) high
$20,000 - 30,000

For an identical vase donated by the Meizan family and now in the collection of the Osaka City
Museum, see Oliver Impey, Meiji no Takara: Treasures of Imperial Japan, vol. 5, Ceramics Part
II, London, 1995, fig. 20, p.56.

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