Two Satsuma dishes


One by Kinkozan and one by Unzando, Meiji era (1868-1912), late 19th/early 20th centuryEach decorated in enamels and gilt, the first a rectangular dish depicting figures enjoying the hanami (cherry-blossom-viewing) season on the banks of a lake, some ladies gathered at the veranda of a teahouse beside flowering shrubs of peonies, the base signed with an impressed seal Kinkozan tsukuru, 3cm x 13cm x 21cm (1 1/16in x 5 1/8in x 8¼in); the second a circular dish showing a family outing on a spring evening enclosed within a floral cartouche, signed on the base Nihon Unzando, 18cm (7 1/16in) diam. (2).