A pair of tall rectangular matching Satsuma vases


By Yomeizan, Meiji era (1868-1912), late 19th/early 20th centuryEach decorated in enamels and gilt, each vase similarly painted with an outdoor leisurely genre scene, one of numerous sightseers gathered by a teahouse, another depicting a bustling spring scene with townspeople, peasants and elegantly dressed women enjoying hanami (cherry-blossom-viewing), the third depicting a mother and children on the shores of a lake, the fourth a similar scene of a mother and two children beside a brushwood fence behind which grow tall stalks of chrysanthemums, the shoulder of each vase with stylised floral sprays on a cobalt-blue ground; each vase signed on the base Dai Nihon Youmeizan. Each vase 42cm (16½in) high. (2).