Catalogued by Bonhams as: “A Satsuma bottle vase By Yabu Meizan, Meiji period (late 19th century)”. Offered at Bonhams, New York, on 2014-09-16 (sale 21786, lot 2269). It realised USD 35,000 including buyer’s premium.
Catalogue description (as published): A Satsuma bottle vase By Yabu Meizan, Meiji period (late 19th century) Designed with a tall cylindrical neck and a compressed body flaring out at the bottom and set on a low ring foot, painted with a continuous frieze of scenes of Lake Biwa around the middle of the neck, the mouth decorated with a band of key-frets and the entire body painted with a series of stylized wave patterns in red enamel with stippled gilt detail diminishing in size as they approach the neck, signed in gilt Yabu Meizan 6 3/4in (17.3cm) high
