A JAPANESE YABU MEIZAN-STYLE SATSUMA BOWL

A JAPANESE YABU MEIZAN-STYLE SATSUMA BOWL
MEIJI ERA, 19TH/20TH CENTURY

Delicately painted to the well with two carp swimming underneath wisteria, the sides with shaped panels variously enclosing mountainous watery landscapes, figures and children observing an hinamatsuri altar with dolls, the reverse with a worn gilt mark possibly for Yabu Meizan, 12.3cm; together with a wood stand. (2)

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