Pair of dishes with a koto player and a feast — Bonhams, 2021

Pair of dishes with a koto player and a feast — Bonhams, 2021
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A pair of dishes, one with a girl playing the koto, the other with men drinking soup beside a sea bream, catalogued by Bonhams as the work of Yabu Meizan. Mark as recorded in the catalogue: each signed on the base ‘Yabu Meizan’. Offered at Bonhams, London in November 2021 as lot 209. It realised £12,112.5 including buyer’s premium, against an estimate of £4,000–6,000.

Seal / signature description

Each signed on the base 'Yabu Meizan'

Provenance history

Apparently the same pair as Bonhams Knightsbridge, 11 May 2009, sale 16786, lot 52

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