A SATSUMA BALUSTER VASE decorated in coloured enamels and gilt with a shaped panel depicting carpenters and stonemasons at work and artisans making Noh masks and lanterns, the reverse with figures in boats before pavilions in a mountainous spring landscape, all on a ground of alternating bands of dense flowers including chrysanthemums, pinks, peonies and daisies, signed Yabu Meizan, 19th century

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A SATSUMA BALUSTER VASE decorated in coloured enamels and gilt with a shaped panel depicting carpenters and stonemasons at work and artisans making Noh masks and lanterns, the reverse with figures in boats before pavilions in a mountainous spring landscape, all on a ground of alternating bands of dense flowers including chrysanthemums, pinks, peonies and daisies, signed Yabu Meizan, 19th century
14.4cm. high

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The pair to this vase is illustrated in Satsuma, Louis Lawrence, Dauphin Publishing Ltd, 1991, p88

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