Lot 409
YABU MEIZAN (1853-1934)
SATSUMA VASE, MEIJI PERIOD, CIRCA 1910
Fine Asian & Islamic Works of Art
Auction: 3 November 2023 from 09:00 GMT
Description
明治 約1910 藪明山底款 薩摩燒富士山景瓶 共箱
finely decorated on the slender body in enamels and gilt with a continuous landscape scene with Fuji Mountain afar and river meandering in the foreground, with small figures, houses and boats in between, all between a band of clustered chrysanthemum and peony blossoms around the mouth rim and foot, the based inscribed with a gilt seal 'Yabu Meizan' in square, with a fitted wooden stand and original tomobako, which has a sticker on the inside cover reading 'Yabu Meizan, Painter of the finest satsuma porcelain, No. 197, Naka Ni-chome, Dojima, Ocaka, Japan'
Dimensions
17.8cm high
Provenance
Provenance: Private English collection, London; acquired by current owner’s great-aunt Etta May Gubbins (1871-1955) during her honeymoon trip in Yokohama in 1910. Etta May Gubbins married in 1909 at Kilmallock, Ireland to Captain Burston Beresford Gubbins (1876-1929), The 13th Hussars.
May Gubbins, nee May Gibson, was the eldest of the three daughters of Edmund Gibson who was born at Quernmore Park, near Lancaster in 1824, went out to New Zealand with his brother Wilson and staked a claim to about 20,000 acres of land in South Island and died at Otago in 1886.