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A large baluster vase
with short everted neck, painted and gilt with a panel depicting numerous scholars and attendants in a bamboo grove on the banks of a river, the reverse with ladies and children at leisure before pavilions variously eating and drinking and practicing the art of calligraphy, all on a dark blue ground reserved with butterflies in flight, swirling waters and scattered flowerheads -- 18in. (45.7cm.) high, signed Satsuma Hotoda.
See Colour Plate 10 and detail of signature.
with short everted neck, painted and gilt with a panel depicting numerous scholars and attendants in a bamboo grove on the banks of a river, the reverse with ladies and children at leisure before pavilions variously eating and drinking and practicing the art of calligraphy, all on a dark blue ground reserved with butterflies in flight, swirling waters and scattered flowerheads -- 18in. (45.7cm.) high, signed Satsuma Hotoda.
See Colour Plate 10 and detail of signature.