An Earthenware Vase

MEIJI PERIOD (LATE 19TH CENTURY), RED ENAMEL MARK SATSUMA SHOZAN, BLUE ENAMEL SHIMAZU CREST

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An Earthenware Vase
Meiji Period (Late 19th Century), Red Enamel Mark Satsuma Shozan, Blue Enamel Shimazu Crest
Painted in polychrome enamels and gilt over a clear crackled glaze with butterflies and peonies blooming behind a brush fence and on bamboo trellises, the foot and shoulder decorated with a formal band of chrysanthemums and a narrow band of gilt scrolling vines around the neck
9in. (14.7cm.) high

Lot Essay

PUBLISHED:
Yabe Yoshiaki, ed., Satsuma no kinrande zuroku (Catalogue of gilded enameled Satsuma) (Fukuoka: Ohmuta Gahden Hoteru Bijutsukan, 1993), pl. 44.

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