Beschreibung:

By the Kinkozan company, signed Kinkozan tsukuru Japan, Kyoto, Meiji period (1868-1912) The square-shaped lidded jar is finely painted in gold and polychrome enamels with separate scenes on each of the four sides, showing a mother writing with her children watching, two small quails amongst millet and flowers, three women picking flowers under a blooming cherry tree, and a hilly landscape with trees obscuring a house by a lake. The areas around the square scenes on each side as well as the top of the jar are beautifully decorated with dense floral compositions on a midnight blue ground. The domed lid shows the same pattern and has an openwork handle painted gold. Four-character mark KINKOZAN tsukuru to the base. Original paper label from the Kinkozan factory to the lid interior (rare). SIZE 19 x 16 x 16 cm Condition: Minor firing crack (length 10 cm) to the interior, hardly visible to the naked eye. Minimal wear to the gold. Otherwise superb condition with no losses or chips whatsoever. The fragile openwork handle is also in perfect condition. Provenance: From a South German private collection, acquired before 2010. A collector’s filing card written in German, describing this piece as a “Lidded jar, ceramic with fine painting, Satsuma, Mark: Kinkozan, Japan, 2nd half of 19th century, height 19 cm, 7000,-“ accompanies this lot. Auction comparison: A related vase with a similar design and of square shape was sold by Sotheby’s, Japanese and Korean Works of Art, 12 November 2002, London, lot 256 (sold for 7,050 GBP).