A large baluster Satsuma vase


By Kinkozan, Meiji era (1868-1912), late 19th/early 20th centuryDecorated in enamels and gilt, the body with two large rectangular panels, each enclosing a bird-and-flower scene, one showing a cockerel perched on a latticed bamboo fence beneath trailing wisteria and a hen standing below among flowering shrubs of lilies and wild chrysanthemums growing besides a stream, the other depicting a pair of pheasants foraging for food beside a flowering cherry tree among tall stems of basho (Japanese fibre banana) and flowering shrubs of morning glory, all reserved on a cobalt-blue ground decorated with stylised flower heads and foliage, the neck with bands of geometric motifs; signed on the base in gilt Kinkozan tsukuru. 40cm (15¾in) high.