A barbed dish with a lakeside view seen past a foreground of dishevelled mooring posts, peonies and an oversized kingfisher in a weeping willow. Lawrence describes it as hand-painted in Meizan’s early years, before his use of copper plates, and notes that the barbs are designed to look like lingzhi fungus heads. He adds that Meizan did not use the barbed shape in later work.
Description summarised from Louis Lawrence, Satsuma: The Romance of Japan (2011), pl. 44, pp. 64–65. 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. 44, pp. 64–65.
