A small faceted Satsuma vase Meiji era (1868-1912), circa 1900 Finely painted with four tapered panels, each in colored enamels and gilt with birds and flowers alternating with a scholar's hut by a rushing stream in a mountainous landscape, and a thatched-roof cottage by a lake, each scene bordered by floral lozenges, the shoulder painted with a formal lappet collar on a ground of plum blossoms, signed on the underside in gilt in an elaborate floral reserve Kinkozan and with an original paper label from the Kinkozan workshop 6 1/4in (15.9cm) high