A JAPANESE SATSUMA VASE MEIJI 1868-1912 The pear-shaped body rising to a tall slender neck

A JAPANESE SATSUMA VASE

MEIJI 1868-1912

The pear-shaped body rising to a tall slender neck, decorated to one side with a panel of women and children playing musical instruments, to the other with warriors and two smaller panels with birds and blossoming branches, the neck with a continuous scene of tennin floating amongst auspicious objects and with brocade borders, unsigned, 20.2cm.