Satsuma Reflection

Satsuma ware, 1860-1930
Height: 5.78 cm
Mouth/lip: 0.62/1.32 cm
Stopper: silver

Provenance:
JWA International, Florida, 1991
Hildegard Schonfeld
Christie’s, New York, 21 March 2013, lot 1063
Hugh Moss (HK) Ltd

 

Polychrome enamels on colourless, minutely crackled glaze on beige porcelain; with a flat lip, concave foot, and convex foot rim; painted on each main side with a panel of floral scenes, one with a bird flying near flowering shrubs, the other with two butterflies and a dragonfly fluttering around chrysanthemums, surrounded by a formalized floral scroll, the narrow sides with mask-and-elongated-ring handles, the lip with gilding.

Alexander Whittaker