Lot description

A fine Satsuma bottle vase

By Yabu Meizan, Meiji period (late 19th century)
The ovoid body with an elongated flared neck and painted in polychrome enamels and gilt on a clear crackle glaze with a continuous scene of fishermen and boaters in the straits of a small island with fishing nets and a shrine gate, possibly representing Lake Biwa, the distant mountains silhouetted by fine gilt stippling, the shoulder painted with a collar of chrysanthemum heads below a geometric floret band, the neck decorated with a Daimyo procession enacted by children, the foot and rim painted with geometric and floral bands, signed in gilt Yabu Meizan
8in (20.3cm) high

Quoted from the lot page, © Bonhams. Bonhams, Fine Japanese Works of Art, 2014-09-16, lot 2263 ↗