JAPAN, Satzuma, early 20th century Earthenware ovoid coffee pot with polychrome and gilded decoration of flowering shrubs and a frieze of poly-lobed cartouches. Lid decorated en suite. Handle and spout in the shape of chimeric lizards. Signed on reverse. H. 16.5 cm. Minor wear to the decorations, chips to the dragon; spout and lid restored, small missing parts. With a blackened wooden base (unsuitable).