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A LARGE SATSUMA BALUSTER VASE
By Kinkozan, Meiji era (1868-1912), late 19th/early 20th century
Decorated in enamels and gilt, the body painted with two large
rectangular panels, each enclosing a different scene, one showing a
spring outdoor scene with two elegantly dressed ladies and a child
from a wealthy household taking a stroll in a garden beneath cherry
blossoms, the other a late summer or early autumn scene with a
cockerel and hen pecking for seeds in front of a flowering shrub of
hechima (loofah) and nasu (aubergines), a pair of sparrows perched on
trailing branches of ripe green ingenmame (beans) behind ripe stalks
of tomorokoshi (corn), flowering hozuki (Chinese lantern) and susuki
(pampas grass), all reserved on a cobalt-blue ground of repeat stylised
foliate motifs, the flattened shoulder with crests interwoven among
stylised chidori (plovers or dotterels) on waves; signed on the base in
gilt Dai Nihon Kyoto Kinkozan zo.
47cm (18½in) high.

£3,000 - 5,000
JPY440,000 - 740,000
US$4,000 - 6,600

For details of the charges payable in addition to the final Hammer Price of each Lot
please refer to paragraphs 7 & 8 of the Notice to Bidders at the back of the catalogue.