A GOOD JAPANESE SATSUMA DISH BY KOBAYASHI KEIZAN

MEIJI PERIOD, 19TH CENTURY

Decorated in gilt and polychrome with many different birds in a luxuriant river landscape, the chickens, ducks, swallows and tits surrounded by an abundance of flowers, with peonies, chrysanthemum, prunus, hibiscus and many other flowers painted in a profusion of colours, the rim with a band of key fret, the reverse with three large clusters of butterflies and an elaborate signature for Kobayashi Keizan in two colourful reserves surrounded with branches of maple leaves, 24.7cm.

Provenance: an English private collection of Satsuma wares, Wiltshire. Purchased from Sotheby's London, 12th November 2002, lot 262; a copy of the original receipt is available.