Lot description

A fine Satsuma vase

By Yabu Meizan, Meiji period (late 19th century)
Of compressed meiping form with a flared foot and decorated in polychrome enamels and gilt on a clear crackle ground with a continuous design of frogs in various anthropomorphic attitudes, banded at the top and bottom by tendrils of morning glory and pinks, the foot designed with lotus floral scroll, gilt rim, signed Yabu Meizan
6 1/2in (16.5cm) high

Footnotes

The design calls to mind the Choju Jinbutsu Giga (The Scrolls of Frolicking Animals), the 12th-century picture scrolls depicting animals in human-like activities.

Quoted from the lot page, © Bonhams. Bonhams, Fine Japanese Works of Art, 2014-09-16, lot 2267 ↗