Satsuma high quality Japanese earthenware mantle vase adorned with vignettes of interior scenes, Meiji period, 19th century, signed in vignette centre right, 47 cm high. Note: within this fine Satsuma decoration are signatures applied to some of the furniture and the scroll painting the young boy is holding, and signed monograms encircling the neck which are placed with-in silver-ingot shaped cartouches.