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 a festival-float panel, St Louis 1904花鳥模様鉢（1904年セントルイス万博出品）Photographed for the official Japanese fine-art catalogue of the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition, where it was listed as “Basin, of Flowers and…
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…
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 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…
Bowl with birds and butterflies among peonies (Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park)色絵花鳥文碗This small bowl, painted with birds and butterflies among peonies, is part of the Tetsuro Tanabe Collection at the Museum of Contemporary…
Bowl with peonies and wisteria (Khalili S 160)This bowl of 1900–1910 abandons figures altogether in favour of a profusion of flowers. The exterior is crowded with peonies in orange,…
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…
Flower pot with flower and bird, Japan-British Exhibition 1910 (no.147)花鳥図植木鉢（1910年日英博覧会出品 No.147）Catalogue no.147 at the Japan-British Exhibition, London, 1910: “Flower Pot with Design of Flower and Bird (Porcelain), Yabu Meizan.” A tall cylindrical…
Incense case with chrysanthemums, Japan-British Exhibition 1910 (no.158)菊模様香合（1910年日英博覧会出品 No.158）Catalogue no.158, London 1910: “Incense Case with Chrysanthemum Pattern (Earthenware), Yabu Meizan.” A shallow round kōgō shown with its cover removed: a…
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 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 ewer with a demitasse cup and saucer — Bonhams, 2026This lot combines two small pieces painted on a clear crackled ground. The first is a miniature ewer of compressed ovoid form,…
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 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 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…
Partial service with maple and flowers — Bonhams, 2016This partial service shows a less familiar side of the studio's output: tableware for drinking sake, tea and coffee, decorated with a…
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 lidded box with a daimyo procession (British Museum 1981,0808.36)This small lidded box, less than eight centimetres long, compresses one of Meizan's favourite subjects into a palm-sized object. The outside shows…
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 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 bowl with a daimyo procession — Christie’s, 2025This tall bowl, just under ten centimetres high, carries a daimyō procession around its exterior. The formal journey of a feudal lord…
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…
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 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 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 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 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.