A Japanese Satsuma earthenware circular bowl by Kinkozan, Meiji period, of steep-sided kiku outline, the interior centred with a scene of four scholars on a pilgrimage, one seated and painting a landscape while others prepare food and drink, the sides filled inside and out with luxuriant millefleurs, iron red and gilt four-character signature to base, height 19.5cm, diameter 31cm (faint hairline to rim).