An ovoid Satsuma vase


By Kizan, Meiji era (1868-1912), late 19th/early 20th centuryDecorated in enamels and gilt, the front painted with an outdoor scene depicting two young ladies accompanied by two girls strolling along the shores of a lake within a floriform cartouche, reserved on a cream ground painted with a large pink plum tree with its branches spreading across the body and continuing on the reverse, three uguisu (bush warblers) perched or in flight among the flowering branches, the shoulder decorated with overlapping assorted brocade beneath a square rim; signed on the base in gilt Kizan kore o tsukuru within a seal. 19cm (7½in) high.