A TALL JAPANESE SATSUMA VASE BY KINKOZAN

MEIJI PERIOD, 19TH CENTURY

The baluster body richly decorated in gilt and polychrome with two large heart-shaped panels, one side with many chickens underneath trellis covered with fruiting gourds, flowers and scrolling tendrils, the reverse with ducks by a river and with flowering hibiscus behind them, on a dense ground of comma-shaped patterns and gilt dots, with a band of chevrons above the foot and to the rim, the base signed Kinkozan zo in a square cartouche, 26cm.

Provenance: an English private collection of Satsuma wares, Wiltshire.