A JAPANESE SATSUMA DISH BY FUJISAN

MEIJI PERIOD, 19TH CENTURY

Decorated in gilt and polychrome, the well with a large flower-shaped panel enclosing two beauties and three children on a veranda, one woman seated at a low table with a scroll painting before her, a blossoming prunus tree above them and a meandering stream beyond, on a dark navy-blue ground painted in gilt with chrysanthemum flowerheads and scrolling tendrils, the rim with a border containing scale-like patterns, the underside with a deep blue glaze and the base signed Fujisan zo in a square cartouche, 18.4cm.