AN UNUSUAL JAPANESE SATSUMA VASE BY SEIKOZAN

AN UNUSUAL JAPANESE SATSUMA VASE BY SEIKOZAN
MEIJI ERA, 19TH/20TH CENTURY

The bulbous body raised on a short foot and with an elongated neck, elegantly decorated in gilt and polychrome enamels with large flowering sprays of chrysanthemum and peony on a coral-red ground; with a wide band of flowerheads amongst stylised waves below the rim; the base signed Seikozan, 18.5cm.

Provenance: from an English private collection, West Yorkshire, formed in the 1970s and 1980s.