Vintage sculpture of a reclining cat. It is made of glazed Satsuma porcelain. The okimono is decorated with images of plum blossoms and an arrow leaf. The cat is dressed up in a purple bow with a pair of bells. Japan, the 1980s.

The Satsuma style got its name in honor of the province where production began. The earliest known products date back to the middle of the XVI century, at that time the shard was still dark in color. And the world-famous Satsuma-style products appeared in the Meiji era. Master Kinkozan Sobei is considered the founder of the style, it was he who began working with very thin creamy-white porcelain, painting it in a characteristic manner.

Soon Satsuma porcelain became popular all over the world, and at the Paris Exhibition of 1867, the Japanese porcelain presented conquered the European public.