Property of various owners YABU MEIZAN (1853-1934)A Fine Satsuma Deep Bowl Meiji era (1868-1912), circa 1900 The deep bowl with straight sides tapering to a low ring foot and flaring at the mouth, painted in polychrome enamels and gilt over a clear, crackled glaze, the exterior decorated with a continuous frieze of a fishing village before a distant mountain range above a band of millefleur and stylized dragon roundels, the rim painted with geometric and floral lozenges and the foot with chevrons and dots, the interior with butterflies below a rim of blossoming flowers bordered by a key-fret band, signed on the foot in gild Yabu Meizan 5in (13cm) high; 6 5/8in (16.8cm) diameter For a very similar deep bowl by Yabu Meizan in the Khalili Collection, see Oliver Impey et al., The Nasser D. Khalili Collection, vol.5, Ceramics, part II: Earthenware , London, Kibo Foundation, 1995, no. 29.