A very large pair of Satsuma shoulder vases, Japan, 20th century, ivory porcelain with crackle polychrome glaze colouring and gold paint, the neck of the stand decorated with typical patterned cartouches with pictorial fields (monkeys, doll festival, ducks), the surrounding pictorial zone shows the pageantry of a daimyo over town and country with an exalted landscape, 77x31cm