MEIJI PERIOD (LATE 19TH CENTURY), GILT MARK SEISAI, BLUE ENAMEL SHIMAZU CREST

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A Large Earthenware Vase
Meiji Period (late 19th century), gilt mark Seisai, blue enamel Shimazu crest
Painted in polychrome enamels and gilt over a clear crackled glaze with a pair of peacocks perched on the branch of a maple tree with leaves in autumnal colors within gilded cloud borders, chrysanthemums in bloom around the trunk, the lip decorated in cobalt blue and gilt
24 1/2in. (62.2cm.) high

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Lot Essay

PUBLISHED:
Yabe Yoshiaki, ed., Satsuma no kinrande zuroku (Catalogue of gilded enameled Satsuma) (Fukuoka: Ohmuta Gaden Hoteru Bijutsukan, 1993), pl. 25.

Sold in these Rooms, 23 October, 1991, lot 737.

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