The Catalogue
Ranked selection of museum-calibre and major-auction Meiji Satsuma, growing toward 500 works. The default order is the provisional SC Score, which combines market price, museum holding and maker tier.
39 works
Yabu Meizan
Large and highly important presentation vase with four relief panels
US$205,500Bonhams 2017
Yabu Meizan
Vase with frogs at play (Chōjū-giga spirit)
US$93,750Bonhams 2014
Yabu Meizan
Small ovoid jar and cover, children in the snow (Tomkinson jar)
GBP 52,500Bonhams 2014
Yabu Meizan
Rare deep bowl, Ruth and Carl Barron Collection
US$87,500Bonhams 2014
Yabu Meizan
Vase with hollyhock-leaf chrysanthemum flourishes
US$75,000Bonhams 2017
Yabu Meizan
Bottle vase
US$68,750Bonhams 2014
Yabu Meizan
Bottle vase
US$68,750Bonhams 2014
Yabu Meizan
Large plate with caparisoned white elephant and karako
Khalili Collection
Yabu Meizan
Bowl with festival procession and Mt Fuji float
Khalili Collection
Yabu Meizan
Ovoid vase with rhododendron
Khalili Collection
Yabu Meizan
Plate with dayu dōchū procession and flower cart
Khalili Collection
Yabu Meizan
Vase with silk decorators at work (copper plate in Osaka museum)
Khalili Collection
Yabu Meizan
Vase with insect daimyō procession
Khalili Collection
Yabu Meizan
Bowl with peonies and wisteria
Khalili Collection
Yabu Meizan
Bowl with a multitude of women (bought by Henry Walters, St Louis 1904)
Walters Art Museum
Seikozan
Pair of small vases, magistrate and rice harvest panels
US$6,000Bonhams 2016
Kozan (Satsuma painter; possibly Seikozan short form)
Small vase, rabbits and the moon hare
US$5,000Bonhams 2016
Okamoto Ryozan for Yasuda
Large and fine vase
US$18,750Bonhams 2017
Takebe Shōkō
Tapering vase with Raijin and figures fleeing a storm
Khalili Collection
Takebe Shōkō (retailed by Thomas B. Blow)
Plate, Fūjin's storm against children pulling the treasure ship of the Seven Gods
Khalili Collection
Kinkozan (Sōbei VII)
Large vase, Shogun's procession at Yomeimon, Nikko; letter from Mr Kobayashi 1908
Khalili Collection
Sozan for Kinkozan
Ovoid vase with salt-makers' huts and kittens playing with a feather, brown ground
US$56,250Bonhams 2014
Sozan for Kinkozan
Fine and rare reticulated vase, Muromachi-style ink landscape and courtiers
US$50,000Bonhams 2018
Sozan for Kinkozan
Massive trumpet vase, Kusunoki Masashige farewell and geese, cobalt ground
US$37,500Bonhams 2017
Sozan for Kinkozan
Tall trumpet vase with parinirvana 'hanging scroll' panel, cobalt ground
US$35,000Bonhams 2014
Sozan for Kinkozan
Rare green-ground square-shouldered vase, courtiers and swallows
US$35,000Bonhams 2014
Kinkozan
Quadrangular vase with scholar's objects, chocolate ground with gilt and silver phoenixes
US$19,550Christie's 1999
Makuzu Kozan
Magnificent pair of stoneware vases modelled in high undercut relief with birds (mid/late 1870s)
US$15,360Bonhams 2024
Sozan for Kinkozan
Slender vase, peacock and peahen panels, cobalt ground
US$15,000Bonhams 2014
Ryozan for Yasuda
Vase and cover
US$10,625Bonhams 2018
Taizan for Hododa
Large trumpet vase, samurai procession before castle and Mt Fuji
US$8,125Bonhams 2017
Kinkozan (Sōbei VII)
Pierced vase with cherry-blossom bands and courtiers' ox-cart procession
Khalili Collection
Unidentified Kyoto workshop (Shimazu mon)
Jar and cover, rice harvest, silk merchants and Mt Fuji
Khalili Collection
Unidentified (Kyoto Satsuma)
Vase with overlapping Hiroshige Tōkaidō views
Khalili Collection
Makuzu Kōzan workshop
Stoneware vase/jar with high-relief goshawk on flowering branch (bought 1879 from Samuel Henson)
Victoria and Albert Museum
Sozan for Kinkozan
Vase with applied linen-gauze band, carp and irises after Korin
GBP 12,500Christie's 2012
Kinkozan
Vase with cockerels and hens on speckled gold ground
CHF 16,800Christie's 2007
Makuzu Kozan
Pair of earthenware baluster vases with high-relief cranes and peonies
GBP 9,562.5Bonhams 2022
薩
As catalogued: Okada Jizan
Vase with concentric bands
auction (result unknown)