Details
A lobed foliate rimmed bowl
painted and heavily gilt with a central scene of officials and ladies at leisure before pavilions within a border of panels of sumo wrestlers, Noh actors, tradesmen, precessions, figures at leisure and participating in festivals alternating with further panels of peacocks, swallows and pheasants among chrysanthemums, wisteria and irises and boats in river landscapes, the exterior similarly decorated -- 5¼in. (13.4cm.) diam, signed Seikozan.
See Colour Plate 11 and detail of signature.
painted and heavily gilt with a central scene of officials and ladies at leisure before pavilions within a border of panels of sumo wrestlers, Noh actors, tradesmen, precessions, figures at leisure and participating in festivals alternating with further panels of peacocks, swallows and pheasants among chrysanthemums, wisteria and irises and boats in river landscapes, the exterior similarly decorated -- 5¼in. (13.4cm.) diam, signed Seikozan.
See Colour Plate 11 and detail of signature.