A conical Satsuma tea bowl Meiji era (186-1912), late 19th century Painted in polychrome enamels and gilt on a clear, crackled glaze decorated on the interior with three oval panels of a female deity holding a fan, and two courtiers, the exterior decorated with alternating panels of scholars, ascetics, and Chinese children, all against a floral and gilt-stippled ground, the rim with flower-petal panels of geometric patterns and a key-fret band, signed in gilt Meizan 4 3/8in (11.1cm) diameter