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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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…
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 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 a fishing-village frieze — Bonhams, 2023This deep bowl has straight sides that taper to a low ring foot and flare slightly at the mouth. Its exterior carries…
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…
Deep bowl with views of the countryside (V&A C.252-1910)This deep, slightly flaring bowl from the Yabu Meizan workshop is one of a small group of Meizan wares acquired by the…
Jar and cover with a Boys’ Day festival, signed within the scene (Lawrence 2011, pl. 17)An ovoid jar and cover with horizontal bands of landscape, flower heads and boys on their festival day. The festival banners, usually…
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 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 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…
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…
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 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.…
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…
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 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…No works match these filters.