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…
Basin with crowded figures, St Louis 1904鉢（1904年セントルイス万博出品）Listed in the 1904 St Louis catalogue simply as “Basin, Pottery. By Yabu (Meizan), Osaka.” The photograph shows a deep basin with…
Bowl with a cherry-blossom viewing scene — Christie’s, 2025This bowl is decorated with a scene of hanami, cherry-blossom viewing. The spring pastime was a favourite subject of the studio, allowing…
Bowl with a festival procession and a Mount Fuji float (Khalili S 30)A deep bowl of about 1910, this is among the most animated of Meizan's procession pieces. Around the exterior winds a yatai…
Bowl with a festival procession, Japan-British Exhibition 1910 (no.146)祭礼行列図鉢（1910年日英博覧会出品 No.146）Catalogue no.146 at the Japan-British Exhibition, London, 1910: “Bowl with Design of a Festival Procession (Porcelain), Yabu Meizan.” The plate shows a…
Bowl with a Multitude of Women (Walters Art Museum 49.2280)Henry Walters bought this six-lobed foliate bowl at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St Louis in 1904, one of the international fairs…
Brush pot with a bridal procession — Bonhams, 2019This cylindrical brush pot carries a continuous, winding koshi-ire, a bridal procession. In the foreground a high-ranking lady is carried in a…
Conical tea bowl with a warlord’s council — Bonhams, 2022This conical tea bowl, 6.5 centimetres high and twelve centimetres across, places its principal scene inside. A circular panel in the well…
Covered jar with children in the snow (Tomkinson jar) — Bonhams, 2014薩摩 金彩色絵唐子雪遊図花瓶This small ovoid jar and cover carries a continuous snow scene of karako (Chinese boys) at play along a snow-covered lakeshore, with…
Covered jar with ladies boating on a lotus pond — Bonhams Cornette de Saint Cyr, 2025This globular jar has a narrow vertical mouth and a tall lid crowned by a shishi, the mythical lion-dog, boldly decorated in…
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…
Deep bowl with fishermen and travellers — Bonhams, 2022A deep bowl on a ring foot, with nearly vertical sides, this is a fine example of one of the studio's most…
Large charger with a white elephant and Chinese children — Bonhams, 2022This deep charger takes up one of the studio's showpiece designs of the 1880s and 1890s. An enormous elephant, painted in thickly…
Large plate with a caparisoned white elephant and karako (Khalili S 4)One of the studio's grandest early designs, this large plate measures more than 37 centimetres across. It is dominated by an enormous…
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 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…
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…
Pair of dishes with a koto player and a feast — Bonhams, 2021This pair of small dishes, each fifteen centimetres across, offers two contrasting domestic scenes. On one, a girl plays the koto while…
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 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.…
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 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…
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…
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…
Tea pot with customary occupations of the year, Japan-British Exhibition 1910 (no.157)年中行事図茶壺（1910年日英博覧会出品 No.157）Catalogue no.157, London 1910: “Tea Pot with Design of Customary Occupation of the Year (Earthenware), Yabu Meizan.” The plate shows a small…
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 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 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.