A pair of large Meiji period Satsuma earthenware vases, the ovoid bodies raised on circular spreading bases and with trumpet shaped necks, sinuous dragons modelled in high relief clamber across the shoulder as handles. Decorated to the body with diagonal asymmetrical bands of diaper patterning reserved on a cobalt blue ground, the neck and foot further decorated with panels of diaper patterning. Painted character mark under the foot ‘Dai Nippon..... zan Tsukuru’. Height 46 cm