Undated
錦光山造
This four-character brush mark dates to the Meiji era and differs from later printed labels.
Pottery & porcelain · a closer look
Satsuma mark: 保土田; 薩摩
Mark details
- Maker
- Satsuma →
- Period
- Undated
- Wording
- 保土田; 薩摩
- Appearance
- Gold script on black panel below circle-and-cross crest
- Type
- painted
- Colour
- gold on black
- Material
- earthenware
- Place
- Yokohama, Japan
Dating cue
This black-panel format dates to about 1900; the name can identify commissioned work.
Other Satsuma marks
Undated
精巧山造
Four-character square signature without the Yasuda emblem or Shimazu crest; the handwritten number is a collection mark.
Undated
藪明山
Gold square seal with the full Yabu Meizan name; the same seal format appears in a 1904 advertisement.
Undated
亮山之章
Yasuda emblem supplies a proposed post-1896 limit; a different Ryozan spelling need not identify Okamoto.