JAPANESE SATSUMA EARTHENWARE OVOID VASE,Meiji Period. Signed, bird and floral decoration. - 9 7/8 in. high. Estimate $250-350
PROVENANCE: Estate of Thomas Eliot Weil, Washington DC, American Consul in Chong Qing in the 1930s-1940s. Vice-Consul at Canton, 1937-1938. Third Secretary of Embassy at Nanking 1938-1941, Vice-Consul at Shanghai 1941, in Japanese custody seven months.