Catalogued by Bonhams as: “A fine Satsuma bottle vase By Yabu Meizan, Meiji period (late 19th century)”. Offered at Bonhams, New York, on 2014-09-16 (sale 21786, lot 2270). It realised USD 68,750 including buyer’s premium.
Catalogue description (as published): A fine Satsuma bottle vase By Yabu Meizan, Meiji period (late 19th century) Designed with a compressed ovoid body and slender neck terminating in a garlic bulb mouth and decorated in polychrome enamels and gilt on a clear crackle glaze with a continuous frieze of a detailed landscape with the environs of Lake Biwa, the shoulder painted with three lobed cartouches of children participating in the elegant pastimes against a dense floral ground, the neck painted with trailing wisteria and butterflies on a graduated pink ground below a formal lappet collar of vines and lozenges around the mouth, the foot painted with a band of shibori dots below a profusion of morning glories, signed Yabu Meizan in gilt 7 1/4in (18.4cm) high