South African Art, Jewellery and Decorative Arts
Live Auction, 4 February 2013
Decorative Arts
Lot Estimate
ZAR 3 000 - 4 000
Selling Price
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
ZAR 3 513
About this Item
Four Japanese Satsuma vessels, Meiji Period (1868-1912)
all painted in enamels and gilt, comprising: a bowl, painted with eight arhats seated within the coils of a dragon, the reverse similarly decorated, 11cm diameter; an incense burner and reticulated cover, painted with women, children and arhats, on three feet, signed, 10cm high; a miniature teapot, painted with medallions of small boys, the reverse painted with figures attending a Lantern Festival, the shoulder with lappet and geometric borders, spout repaired, 10cm high; and a bowl, painted with a nobleman and his two attendants before a riverscape, gilding worn, signed, 20cm diameter
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