An ovoid jar and cover with horizontal bands of landscape, flower heads and boys on their festival day. The festival banners, usually painted with samurai, are here inscribed with characters meaning ‘Great Japan, Yabu Meizan’. Lawrence calls this “one of only a handful of occasions” he had seen where Meizan signed within the scene, as well as on the base in the usual way (p. 40).
Description summarised from Louis Lawrence, Satsuma: The Romance of Japan (2011), pl. 17, pp. 38–40. Measurements and marks are as published and have not been checked against the object.
Provenance
Anonymous private collection, as stated in the source: Lawrence (2011, p. 259) says all Satsuma pieces in the book are from anonymous private collections in the USA and Europe (exceptions nos. 4, 29, 65 and 141, none of which is this piece).
Literature
Louis Lawrence, Satsuma: The Romance of Japan (2011), pl. 17, pp. 38–40.
