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Property from the Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia, Sold to Benefit the Charles Knox Smith Art Acquisition Fund
Lot 6517
A massive Satsuma earthenware vase Meiji Period
23 August 2010, 10:00 PDT
San FranciscoSold for US$1,342 inc. premium
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Meiji Period
The unusual shape with canted shoulder meeting a long waisted body also canting inward toward the base, decorated in polychrome enamels and gilt with Buddhist assemblies overlaid with four rectangular panels similarly filled with divine figures, the shoulder with flying apsaras between keyfret and leaf-form bands, and with dragons encircling the canted surface above a keyfret patterned foot; signed Dai Nihon Satsuma Gyokusen beneath a blue Satsuma mon to the recessed base.
35 1/2in (90.2cm) high
The unusual shape with canted shoulder meeting a long waisted body also canting inward toward the base, decorated in polychrome enamels and gilt with Buddhist assemblies overlaid with four rectangular panels similarly filled with divine figures, the shoulder with flying apsaras between keyfret and leaf-form bands, and with dragons encircling the canted surface above a keyfret patterned foot; signed Dai Nihon Satsuma Gyokusen beneath a blue Satsuma mon to the recessed base.
35 1/2in (90.2cm) high