Two Satsuma vases


Meiji era (1868-1912), late 19th/early 20th centuryDecorated in enamels and gilt, the first with a petal rim and painted with two panels, one depicting an outdoor scene of a samurai family celebrating the healthy growth of their infant son, the other with autumnal flowers growing against a bamboo fence, on a cobalt-blue ground of foliate motifs, signed on the base Kinkozan, with an impressed mark Kinkozan tsukuru, 14cm (5½in) high; the second vase with two lobed panels in the upper section enclosing a building nestled among pine trees in a rocky lakescape on a cobalt-blue ground of sparse formal foliate motifs, the lower section painted with seasonal flowers including irises, fuyo (rose mallow) and chrysanthemums encircling the bottom section between narrow bands of shippo-zunagi (linked jewels), signed on the base Shisui and Kinkozan tsukuru, 13cm (5 1/8in) high. (2).