Lot description

A tall and fine Satsuma vase

By Sozan for the Kinkozan studio, Meiji period (late 19th century)
Of trumpet form with flared foot, delicately painted in polychrome enamels and gilt on a clear crackle glaze with two vertical panels, the first with a highly detailed ‘hanging scroll’ depicting the parinirvana (the death of the historical Buddha), each of his disciples, animals of the realm and various deities represented, the ‘brocade’ rendered in a dense pattern of lozenges and crests in gilt, the reverse with an elaborate hanging flower basket, trailing wisteria and butterflies, each panel signed Sozan in red enamel and with a key-fret border, the surrounding areas painted with ferns in gilt on a cobalt ground, the interior rim with a gilt cloud design, signed in gilt and enamel cartouches Kyoto Awata Kinkozan zo and impressed signature Kinkozan zo
12in (30.5cm) high

Footnotes

Provenance:
Ex Walter and Edith Haas collection, no. 67

Published:
Louis Lawrence, Satsuma: masterpieces from the world’s important collections (London: Dauphin Publishing, 1991), no. 91.

Quoted from the lot page, © Bonhams. Bonhams, Fine Japanese Works of Art, 2014-09-16, lot 2208 ↗