Lot description

A Satsuma bottle vase

By Yabu Meizan, Meiji period (late 19th century)
Designed with a tall cylindrical neck and a compressed body flaring out at the bottom and set on a low ring foot, painted with a continuous frieze of scenes of Lake Biwa around the middle of the neck, the mouth decorated with a band of key-frets and the entire body painted with a series of stylized wave patterns in red enamel with stippled gilt detail diminishing in size as they approach the neck, signed in gilt Yabu Meizan
6 3/4in (17.3cm) high

Footnotes

Provenance:
Ex Walter and Edith Haas collection, no. 22

Published:
Louis Lawrence, Satsuma: Masterpieces from the world’s important collections (London: Dauphin Publishing, 1991), no. 35

Quoted from the lot page, © Bonhams. Bonhams, Fine Japanese Works of Art, 2014-09-16, lot 2269 ↗