A SMALL JAPANESE SATSUMA BOWL BY KINKOZAN

A SMALL JAPANESE SATSUMA BOWL BY KINKOZAN
MEIJI ERA (1868-1912)

The rounded sides decorated all-over to the interior and exterior with the 'Thousand Faces' pattern, with details of the figures' clothes and accoutrements picked out in gilt; the foot rim with a border of brocade pattern, the base signed Kinkozan, 15.2cm.

Provenance: a private English collection, formerly from an archivist working with the British Diplomatic Service in Shanghai from the 1920s, later taken as prisoner of war in Japan, and thence by descent.