TWO JAPANESE SATSUMA SAKE EWERS AND COVERS

TWO JAPANESE SATSUMA SAKE EWERS AND COVERS
MEIJI OR TAISHO ERA, 20TH CENTURY

The first decorated to the sides with a pheasant preening itself among flowering peony, trailing vines and bamboo, the flat cover painted with two sparrows among bamboo stems, with a bamboo handle, the underside of the spout signed Bizan; the other of conical shape and raised on three short feet, painted with panels of beauties and boys in a garden, the cover with figures in interiors, with a metal handle, the base possibly signed Hozan below the Shimazu mon, 13cm and 13.3cm. (4)

Provenance: the private collection of a lady and gentleman, Derbyshire.

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