HŌRAIKEN (ACTIVE LATE 19TH CENTURY) A Large and Impressive Pair of Satsuma Models of Lanterns Meiji era (1868-1912), late 19th centuryProperty from a private New York collectionHŌRAIKEN (ACTIVE LATE 19TH CENTURY)A Large and Impressive Pair of Satsuma Models of Lanterns Meiji era (1868-1912), late 19th centurySeparately modeled and assembled in three sections as a pair of stone lanterns, each decorated in gosu blue, red, and black enamel and gilt painted on the base with plovers over waves and peonies reserved on an inazuma (lightning-bolt) ground below a chrysanthemum form stand supporting a cylindrical upright painted with dragons in clouds, the hexagonal firebox pierced with a crescent and full-moon aperture and painted with the Six Immortal Poets, each behind a honeycomb screen, the gabled roof painted with heraldic crests on a ground of scrolling vines below a jewel finial, signed on the base Satsuma-yaki Hōraiken tsukuru, with a kaō (cursive monogram) and the mark of the Shimazu Family (2) 18 1/4in (46.3cm) highNone