Catalogued by Bonhams as: “A Satsuma baluster vase By Yabu Meizan, Meiji Period”. Offered at Bonhams, London, New Bond Street, on 2010-11-11 (sale 17858, lot 267). It realised GBP 5,400 including buyer’s premium.
Catalogue description (as published): A Satsuma baluster vase By Yabu Meizan, Meiji Period Finely painted in enamels and gilt with an outdoor scene of numerous families enjoying the hanami (cherry-blossom viewing) season, some figures seated on benches, others passing in conversation, whilst the children try to catch butterflies, all beneath an upper border of trailing cherry blossoms beneath a geometric rim, the foot with a band of densely-clustered chrysanthemums; signed on a gilt seal Yabu Meizan . 15.1cm (6in) high.