AN EARTHENWARE MINIATURE VASE, MEIJI PERIOD (LATE 19TH CENTURY), SIGNED YABU MEIZAN, of double-gourd form with flattened lower body and tall, cylindrical waist, painted in enamels of orange, light blue, green, purple and gilt with swirling bands of flowerheads below a frieze of children and a wide band of minute butterflies, all reserved on a cream crackled glaze ground, mark partially rubbed on recessed base--3in. high