A FINE JAPANESE SATSUMA BOWL BY KINKOZAN

A FINE JAPANESE SATSUMA BOWL BY KINKOZAN
MEIJI ERA, 19TH/20TH CENTURY

Delicately painted to the interior with three petal-shaped panels enclosing many figures, including boys playing go; the cavetto with a border of rectangular cartouches variously painted with landscapes, birds and flowers, and further figures, in between borders of key fret and triangular patterns; the reverse with three large peony flowerheads, brocade patterns and shippo-tsunagi coin designs; the base with a square gilt cartouche reading Kinkozan zo and with another Kinkozan impressed mark, 12.6cm.