Lot description

A fine Satsuma vase

By Sozan for the Kinkozan studio, Meiji period (late 19th century)
The ovoid vase painted in polychrome enamels and gilt with two panels containing painterly designs of salt-maker’s huts and gnarled pine trees on the shore of a lake and a group of kittens playing with a feather in a flowering garden, the surrounding areas painted with tailing wisteria and stands of irises in gilt on a brown-enamel ground, the scenes signed Sozan in red enamel and the foot singed Dai Nihon Kyoto Kinkozan sei zo Sozan ga
7 1/2in (19.1cm) high

Footnotes

Provenance:
Ex Walter and Edith Haas collection, no. 63

Published:
Louis Lawrence, Satsuma: masterpieces from the world’s important collections (London: Dauphin Publishing, 1991), no. 90.

Quoted from the lot page, © Bonhams. Bonhams, Fine Japanese Works of Art, 2014-09-16, lot 2209 ↗