A working catalogue of works from the studio of Yabu Meizan (藪明山, 1853–1934), compiled from museum, auction and published records.
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Barrel-shaped vase with children at play — Bonhams, 2026This barrel-shaped vase, cylindrical and tapering to rim and foot, is painted with a central frieze of children playing games. In a…
Beaker vase with an autumn maple branch — Bonhams, 2026This beaker vase has a globular body that finishes in a widely flaring mouth. It is painted with a single trailing branch…
Bottle vase with boats and cherry blossom — Bonhams, 2014This bottle vase has a slender neck ending in a garlic-bulb mouth. It is painted with a continuous scene of boats of…
Bulbous vase on a flared foot with boys at play, a copper-plate piece (Lawrence 2011, pl. 24)A small vase of exaggerated bulbous form on a flared foot, with boys at play. Lawrence dates it to around 1910 and…
Covered vase with three friezes — Bonhams, 2020This small ovoid vase and cover is painted in three continuous friezes divided by geometric or floral bands. The first shows autumn…
Gourd-shaped vase with monkeys playing in wisteria (Lawrence 2011, pl. 124)A gourd-shaped vase whose whole surface is given to monkeys frolicking in wisteria. Lawrence notes that monkeys are not usually found on…
Large presentation vase with four relief panels — Bonhams, 2017Described by Bonhams as a presentation vase of exceptional importance, this square-sided vase holds the highest price in this archive. Each face…
Large rectangular vase with four pictorial panels (Khalili S 148)At 37 centimetres, this rectangular vase of about 1890 is one of the largest and most ambitious early works recorded from the…
Large vase with a view of Lake Biwa — Bonhams, 2015This vase is painted on a clear crackled glaze with a continuous view of Lake Biwa, Japan's largest lake and a classic…
Large vase with Mount Fuji, wisteria and peacocks (Osaka Museum of History)富士・藤・孔雀図大花瓶The Osaka Museum of History holds the principal Japanese research collection of Meizan's work, and this large vase is among its most…
Large vase with shell-gatherers at low tide — Bonhams, 2019This elongated ovoid vase tapers to the foot and finishes in a square, slightly everted mouth. Around the body villagers gather shells…
Large vase with the rice harvest — Bonhams, 2017This large baluster vase follows villagers through the stages of the rice harvest, with boats and barges on a lake beyond and…
Miniature blue-ground vase with children and a seascape — Bonhams, 2026This miniature vase of flattened meiping form is distinguished by an unusual robin's-egg blue ground on its shoulder, over which trail vines…
Miniature vase with artisans at work — Bonhams, 2014This miniature vase of bulbous form with a long neck is decorated on a clear crackled glaze with a band of finely…
Miniature vase with panels on a millefleurs ground — Bonhams, 2026Under nine centimetres high, this miniature vase shows the studio's ability to organise several subjects on a tiny surface. Oval panels set…
Miniature vase with wisteria on a pierced foot (V&A C.231-1910)Only a little over six centimetres high, this miniature vase shows how far the Meizan studio could refine a simple idea. Its…
Ovoid vase with a puppeteer and children — Bonhams, 2019This ovoid vase is painted with a continuous outdoor scene of a puppeteer at work beneath flowering cherry branches. He deftly manipulates…
Ovoid vase with children imitating a daimyō procession (Lawrence 2011, pl. 13)An ovoid vase on which boys play at being a daimyō's procession, with a lakeside scene on the reverse. Lawrence compares a…
Ovoid vase with landscape scenes (V&A C.225-1910)A compact ovoid bottle with a short upright mouth, this vase pairs two modes of Meizan's decoration. The body is given over…
Ovoid vase with rhododendron (Khalili S 47)Dated by the Khalili Collection to 1910–1915, this vase belongs to the last phase of Meizan's career. In these years the studio…
Pair of small ovoid vases with weaving scenes — Bonhams, 2018This complementary pair of small, elongated ovoid vases is divided into three horizontal registers. The upper band follows women and children through…
Pair of small vases with ladies and children — Bonhams Cornette de Saint Cyr, 2025This pair of tall ovoid vases, each only twelve centimetres high, has a short out-turned mouth, and parts of each are worked…
Pair of square-section vases with birds and river landscapes — Bonhams, 2026薩摩燒瓶一對This pair of vases is of square section, each rising to a tall, slender, flaring neck. The four sides of each are…
Pair of vases with fishermen and festival figures — Christie’s, 2016This pair of oviform vases, each with an everted neck and foot, is painted on a crackled cream ground in a scheme…
Partially enamelled vase with a nobleman’s ox-cart — Bonhams, 2017This small ovoid vase was described by Bonhams as unusual, because its figure decoration is only partially enamelled. The cream body is…
Rectangular vase with sparrows, wisteria and a festival palanquin — Christie’s, 2017This rectangular vase with a short cylindrical neck is painted on a crackled cream ground with four panels, one on each face.…
Slender vase with boys flying kites, an early freehand piece (Lawrence 2011, pl. 23)A slender vase with boys flying kites. Lawrence dates it to the late 1880s and describes it as painted entirely freehand, with…
Small globular vase with women weaving — Bonhams, 2017This small, squat globular vase carries a continuous scene of women at work in the weaving industry. They hang thread to dry,…
Small vase with a daimyo procession — Bonhams, 2013薩摩 金彩色絵大名行列図小花瓶A small vase only twelve centimetres high, this piece carries one of Meizan's most celebrated subjects: the daimyō procession. Around the body…
Small vase with boats in a rural landscape — Christie’s, 2023This small vase has a globular body on a short circular foot and a thin neck that opens to a flared mouth.…
Small vase with craftsmen at work — Christie’s, 2022This small vase, 11.5 centimetres high, shows craftsmen at work. The subject belongs to the shokunin zukushi, or 'pictures of all the…
Small vase with trailing wisteria — Bonhams, 2025This small elongated ovoid vase is dated by Bonhams to about 1910. It is painted with a single motif in profusion: trailing…
Square-mouthed vase with panels of children and landscapes — Bonhams, 2017This vase has an exaggerated ovoid body with a square mouth and four shaped panels: children at play, a landscape, and a…
Square-rimmed vase with a daimyo procession — Bonhams, 2014This ovoid vase has a square rim and is painted over a clear crackled glaze with a daimyō procession. The retinue is…
Tall vase with boating and a shrine under cherry blossom — Bonhams, 2026This tall cylindrical vase, tapering slightly to a splayed foot, is painted on a clear crackled ground with figures boating and visiting…
Tall vase with boating and a tea-house under cherry blossom — Bonhams, 2022This tall cylindrical vase, tapering gently to a splayed foot, unrolls a spring outing along a lakeshore. Holiday-makers drift in boats and…
Two vases with fishing boats and children at crafts — Bonhams, 2025This pair of small baluster vases is painted on a clear crackled glaze with complementary friezes. Fishing boats, ferries and distant sailing…
Vase with a bird and a spider on a cherry branch (The International Studio, 1910)A vase illustrated on page 287 of The International Studio, October 1910, captioned “Vase decorated by Yabu Meizan”. The accompanying article by…
Vase with a bird on a flowering cherry branch (Ashmolean EA1993.12)This slender vase, 25 centimetres high, shows the open, pictorial style associated with the studio around 1910. A single bird perches on…
Vase with a dragonfly among morning glories — Christie’s, 2012This vase, 24 centimetres high, is painted on a fine crackled cream glaze with a dragonfly among morning glories and finished with…
Vase with a maple tree — Christie’s, 2015This earthenware vase has a compressed, sharply angled body surmounted by a tall, waisted neck that flares to a broad mouth. The…
Vase with a view of Miyajima (Osaka Museum of History)宮島山水図花瓶This vase depicts the celebrated shrine of Itsukushima on the island of Miyajima, one of Japan's three classic scenic views, in fine…
Vase with an insect daimyo procession (Khalili S 107)Here Meizan's beloved procession subject is turned into a comedy. Around the ovoid body of this small vase marches a daimyō's retinue…
Vase with craftspeople at work (shokunin zukushi) — Bonhams, 2026This vase has a compressed ovoid body and a slender neck ending in a garlic-bud mouth. On a clear crackled glaze, a…
Vase with figures drying, sorting and packing cloth (Minneapolis Institute of Art 2025.62.3)布晒し・選別・荷造り図花瓶A small vase in the Minneapolis Institute of Art, recorded as Satsuma ware, earthenware painted in overglaze enamels and gilt, decorated with…
Vase with frogs at play — Bonhams, 2014This vase of compressed meiping form, on a flared foot, is painted on a clear crackled ground with a continuous design of…
Vase with hanging maple — Christie’s, 2017This oviform vase, with an everted neck and foot, is painted on a crackled cream ground with branches of coloured maple hanging…
Vase with silk decorators at work (Khalili S 77)The tapering ovoid body of this vase, with its short, slightly flared neck and foot, is painted with the stages of finishing…
Vase with textile production and a thrush in wisteria — Bonhams, 2020This vase has a compressed ovoid body on a slightly splayed foot and an elongated neck. Around the body runs a continuous…No works match these filters.