Satsuma vase, Meiji period, c. 1900, painted in polychrome enamel and gilt, with two panels enclosing figures, reserved on a ground of dense brocade and foliate motifs, on three boy supports, signed 'Hattori, height 14.5 cm. Provenance: Property of a Lady, Sarah J. Conger Nee Pike, wife of the American Ambassador in china, c. 1898-1905, thence by descent. Private Collection Sydney (by repute)