This bowl of 1900–1910 abandons figures altogether in favour of a profusion of flowers. The exterior is crowded with peonies in orange, white, purple, yellow and pink, painted so densely that the blooms almost cover the ground. Below runs a border of flower-heads and foliate scrolls. The interior offers a cooler contrast, with trailing purple and white wisteria hanging from the rim. The bowl is 15.3 centimetres in diameter and is now accompanied by a wooden stand.
Bowls of this deep form were a staple of the studio, and Bonhams has cited this example among the Khalili pieces comparable in size and shape to a deep bowl it sold in 2022. The contrast between the opulent exterior and the lighter interior is characteristic of Meizan’s sense of how a bowl is experienced in the hand. It is published in Impey and Fairley (1995), cat. 66, and Earle’s Splendors of Imperial Japan (2002), cat. 93.