Japanese Works of Art - 1st July 2020
Lot 235
A GOOD JAPANESE SATSUMA TRAY BY FUZAN MEIJI PERIOD
Estimate £1,000 - £2,000 | Hammer £1700
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Description
A GOOD JAPANESE SATSUMA TRAY BY FUZAN
MEIJI PERIOD, 19TH CENTURY
Richly painted in gilt and polychrome, the well with a large rectangular panel enclosing many beauties in a luxuriant garden, a river to the side and Mount Fuji towering in the distance, the figures in the foreground engaged in a game of kemari involving brocade balls, temari, one man on the floor among them, with further figures observing from a veranda behind, the border with brocade patterns, flowerheads, shippo-tsunagi cash patterns and other geometrical designs, the underside with further chrysanthemum blooms, the short foot painted with a thin band of dentils and signed Fuzan to the base, 15cm x 23.9cm.
Provenance: an English private collection, London.
The idea of the game of kemari is to keep the ball in the air for as long as possible.