A Kyoto Satsuma-Vase. Late 19th century

A Kyoto Satsuma-Vase. Late 19th century

Of ovoid shape, decorated in enamels and gold with two large reserves, one painted with mandarin ducks underneath a blossoming cherry tree, the other painted with figures, probably a painter and his servants in a landscape with Mount Fuji. Signed Ikeda kinsei. Chip to the rim. Wooden stand.

Height 12.1 cm

Provenance

Private collection, Rhineland, acquired in Düsseldorf in the late 1960s