Japanese Works of Art - 21st May 2019
Lot 363
A JAPANESE SATSUMA BOWL MEIJI 1868-1912 The well richly decorated with shaped cartouches...
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Description
A JAPANESE SATSUMA BOWL
MEIJI 1868-1912
The well richly decorated with shaped cartouches containing boys at play, beauties and children in an interior and houses by a river before Mount Fuji, all surrounded by radiating panels of butterflies, flowerheads and brocade patterns, the outside with a continuous scene depicting further beauties and children, a band of flowers and birds underneath, a two character mark to the base, 15.3cm dia.; together with a small plique-à-jour enamel vase with ho-ho birds in flight amongst flowers, the base marked Kume for Kumeno Tetaro of Nagoya (1865-1939), 12cm. (2)