A satsuma small ovoid vase
By Meizan, Meiji era (1868-1912), late 19th/early 20th centuryFinely decorated in enamels and gilt, the body with two large lobed panels, one depicting a winter snow-covered Chinese landscape with an oarsman rowing past two Chinese boys at an open viewing pavilion in the foreground, a drum bridge, other pavilions perched at the foot of pines on the left middle ground and mountains rising in the distance, the second panel with a large group of small children engaged in a variety of games and pastimes including karuta, painting, playing with toys, and throwing confetti, the neck and foot rim with a narrow of repeated geometric motifs; signed on the base Meizan within a gilt seal. 12.2cm (4?in) high.