SIGNED SHOKO TAKEBE, MEIJI PERIOD (LATE 19TH - EARLY 20TH CENTURY)

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A Fine Pair of Satsuma Vases
Signed Shoko Takebe, Meiji Period (Late 19th - Early 20th Century)
Of ovoid form with short necks, the sides decorated in enamels and gilt on a crackled and gold-stippled glaze with butterflies and a mass of flowers including hydrangeas, peonies and bellflowers, signed on the base in seal form Shoko Takebe and inscribed in gilt Tomasu Bi Buro [Thomas B. Blow]
29.7cm. high (2)

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Lot Essay

The English dealer Thomas B. Blow, whose name appears only on work signed by Takebe, lived in Japan at least from 1906 until 1914 and returned there in 1930. An inscription on a postcard in one of the volumes in Lot 220, Japanese Art and Design, November 2002 indicates that he was still living in 1932.1

1 Oliver Impey and Malcolm Fairley, The Nasser D. Khalili Collection of Japanese Art (London, 1995), vol. 5, part 2, cat. no. 146.

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