An ovoid Satsuma Vase


By the Kyoto Tojiki Goshigaisha, Meiji era (1868-1912), late 19th/early 20th centuryFinely decorated in enamels and gilt, the body with two large panels enclosing contrasting scenes, the rectangular panel depicting a group of young women and children enjoying an outing along the banks of a river where chrysanthemums and peonies are in full bloom, one woman holding a hagoita (battledore), three birds perched and two in flight among trailing fronds of wisteria and yamazakura (mountain cherry) above, the square panel painted with an elaborate ikebana display, all reserved on a dense ground of a flock of sparrows flying in and out of the bamboo leaves; signed on the base within a seal Kyoto Tojiki Goshigaisha tsukuru. 26.5cm (10 3/8in) high.