A Satsuma reticulated box and cover and circular dish


The first by Okamoto Ryozan for the Yasuda Company, the second by Gosui, Meiji era (1868-1912), late 19th/early 20th centuryEach painted in polychrome enamels and gilt, the first of diamond section with a pierce-carved openwork ground and decorated with two shaped panels painted with beauties by a roadside inn, the lantern signed Ryozan, and a bird in a stand of chrysanthemums, the edges decorated with millefleur and plum blossom crests, signed on the underside Kyoto Ryozan beside the Yasuda Company mark and the Shimazu family mark; the second painted with swirling clusters of flower tiny blossoms surrounding a central chrysanthemum head, the rim gilt, signed in gilt on the underside Dai Nihon Gosui ga in a square reserve surrounded by tiny Shimazu family marks 5 3/4in (14.6cm) wide; 7 3/8in (18.7cm) diameter
|ProvenancePurchased, Grover Antiques, 1963, the firstPurchased, Chicago Art Gallery, 1974, the second