A tall Satsuma cylindrical vase


Painted by Sozan for the Kinkozan Company, Meiji era (1868-1912), late 19th/early 20th centuryFinely and delicately painted in three subtle tones of sumi (ink) with an atmospheric and peaceful evening design flowing around the body with a bamboo grove beside pools of water, each row of stems of bamboo bending in the gentle evening breeze, diminishing in size and fading into the distance, the reverse with the roofs of two thatched dwellings nestled at the foot of bamboo, Mount Fuji soaring in the distance, between two contrasting simple, narrow bands of shippo-zunagi (linked-jewels) in bright gilt encircling the rim and foot; signed at lower right with a gold seal Sozan and on the base with a seal Kinkozan tsukuru and an impressed seal Kinkozan. 25.3cm (10in) high.