Conical tea bowl with a warlord’s council — Bonhams, 2022

A conical tea bowl with a warlord and samurai before a war curtain inside, and ladies and children in a bamboo grove outside, catalogued by Bonhams as the work of Yabu Meizan. Mark as recorded in the catalogue: signed on the base ‘Yabu Meizan’ within a gilt seal. Offered at Bonhams, London in May 2022 as lot 188. It realised £7,650 including buyer’s premium, against an estimate of £6,000–8,000.