Two miniature Satsuma vases


Meiji era (1868-1912), late 19th/early 20th centuryDecorated in enamels and gilt, the first an ovoid vase with a continuous scene of small birds in flight among trailing vines and wisteria above flowering stalks of peonies growing around a pond, signed on the base Awata, Kinkozan and with an impressed seal Kinkozan tsukuru, 10.5cm (4 1/8in) high; the second vase with two wide rectangular panels on the squat spherical body, one depicting a family of peasants at their daily chores, the other with a pair of cockerel and hen among flowers, all reserved on a cobalt-blue ground decorated with sprays of fern, signed on the base Nihon Kyoto Kinkozan, 9cm (3½in) high. (2).