Two small Satsuma vases


One by Kinkozan and one by Hozan, Meiji era (1868-1912), late 19th/early 20th centuryEach decorated in enamels and gilt, one pear-shaped with two panels, one depicting warriors in battle and the other with two Chinese scholars conversing in mountainous landscape on a cobalt-blue ground decorated with trailing wisteria and maple leaves, signed on the base with an impressed seal Kinkozan tsukuru, 15.5cm (6 1/8in) high; the second vase with two lobed panels enclosing two figural scenes, one of ladies cooling off beneath a flowering cherry tree by a river and a peasant family at their chores in front of their house on the banks of a lake, respectively, reserved on a ground with trailing wisteria, the shoulder with repeated geometric motifs within comma and zig-zag shaped cartouches, signed on the base Hozan within a rectangular reserve, 15.2cm (6in) high. (2).