M3899

Chinese porcelain blue and white small ovoid jar and a cover, painted with prunus flowerheads and petals on a cracked-ice ground, with triangular diaper on the shoulder and lappets on the edge of the cover, the underside with two rings in underglaze blue.  

5 7/8 inches, 14.8 cm high. 

Kangxi, 1662-1722. 

A Chinese porcelain blue and white jardinière modelled as a wood barrel, painted on the exterior with a wide band of two carp, a mandarin fish and another fish swimming amongst aquatic plants and lotus flowers, leaves and arrowheads above crested waves and rocks, the foot with a wide band of stylised ruyi, all beneath a blue ground relief band with triangular blue ground diaper of branches and relief blue studs imitating the metal original, beneath an incurved rim painted with a continuous scrolling branch, the slightly recessed base unglazed.

Wanli, 1573-1619.

28.3 cm high, 33.5 cm at widest point.

Chinese imperial porcelain blue and white bottle vase, shang ping, painted in the Ming style with heaped and piled effect, with globular rounded body and four wide relief ribs, tall cylindrical flared neck and slightly splayed foot, painted on the body with six different large flowerheads on a continuous scrolling branch beneath six smaller flowerheads each with its characteristic leaves, including lotus, peony, chrysanthemum and camellia, above a wide band of blue wash ground lappets and beneath bands of ruyi-heads and different flowers on a scrolling branch at the shoulder, the neck with tall leaves above a keyfret band, beneath a further ruyi-head band with a crested wave band beneath the rim, the splayed foot with a scrolling branch.

The base with a six-character sealmark of Qianlong in underglaze blue and of the period, 1736-1795.

14 ⅞ inches, 37.8 cm high.