A JAPANESE SATSUMA BOWL BY KOZAN

A JAPANESE SATSUMA BOWL BY KOZAN
MEIJI ERA, 19TH/20TH CENTURY

Richly painted to the well with a roundel enclosing beauties and children in a landscape, with a pagoda and Mount Fuji in the background; the cavetto decorated with a multitude of flowers trailing down from the rim; the reverse with shaped panels variously enclosing birds, flowers, landscapes and figures in an interior, on a ground of further trailing flowers; a border of lappets above the foot enclosing brocade patterns; the base signed Kozan, 14.2cm; together with a wood stand. (2)

Provenance: a private English collection of Satsuma wares, Wiltshire.