A large baluster Satsuma baluster vase


By Matsumoto Hozan, Meiji era (1868-1912), late 19th/early 20th centuryFinely decorated in enamels and gilt with two large panels enclosing a different scene, one depicting five young boys caught in a gust of wind playing kakurenbo (hide and seek) beside maple trees and two ducks flying past a flowering plum tree on a river bank in the other, all reserved on a cobalt-blue ground decorated in gilt with floral, stylised butterfly and ho-o (phoenix), hollyhock crests among scrolling karakusa ('Chinese grasses'); signed in gilt on the base Matsumoto Hozan. 46cm (18in) high.
|ProvenanceSold at Christie's, London, 30 June 1981, lot 173.