A fine and large Satsuma bowl Meiji era (1868-1912), circa 1900 Painted in polychrome enamels and gilt on a clear crackled, or a cobalt ground, decorated on the interior with a large snowflake-shaped central panel of two lithe beauties enjoying tea while a small boy entertains them with a fox mask, in the background, another beauty plays with a small boy with a pull toy, a cartouche to the left inscribed Tokugawa jidai bijin Utamaro ga (Tokugawa-era beauties painted by Utamaro), the intrerior rim decorated with oval and inome-shaped panels containing a variety of insects, flowers, and young bamboo leaves against a ground of chrysanthemum scroll in gilt, the rim with a keyfret band, the exterior decorated with three large oval panels of swallows in traiing wisteria, a landscape with Mount Fuji in the distance, and beauties admiring blossoms, all on a ground of paulownia flowers and scrolling vines in gilt, signed on the underside with an impressed signature Kinkozan tsukuru 12in (30.5cm) diameter