M4092/3

A Chinese porcelain blue and white bottle vase, with rounded body and tall cylindrical neck and gently flaring rim, painted over all in ‘One Hundred Antiques’ decoration, including books, table screen, tripod incense burner, sceptor, weiqi board and counters, ribbon tied music stone, ribbon-tied leaf and pearl, wrapped qin, jue, fan, brush and axe, rings, vase with lotus flower and leaves and vase with peacock feathers and coral branch, ribbon tied cornucopia and ribbon tied leaf with water dropper.
The base with a double ring in under glaze blue.

9 7/8 inches, 25.2 cm high.

Kangxi, 1662-1722.

A Chinese porcelain blue and white deep bowl, thinly potted with upright sides, painted on the exterior in a continuous scene with three seated scholars amongst deer, scrolls and books, beside rock work and large pine trees, together with a scholar and attendant crossing a bridge and two cranes in flight, the well of the interior with two recumbent deer beside rock work and a large pine tree, in a mountainous river landscape scene beneath the moon and beneath an elaborate border with lingzhi and rock work.

7 3/4 inches, 19.7 cm diameter.

The base with a six character mark of Kangxi within a double ring in underglaze blue and of the period, 1622-1722.

A pair of Chinese porcelain blue and white ‘Master of the Rocks’ large plates, each painted with a seated scholar on a rocky promontory in a mountainous river landscape scene, one with migrating birds, the other with a fisherman in his boat, each encircled by a wide continuous landscape border, with scholars, rock work, willow and houses, the underside of each with two bamboo branches, the base of each with a six – character mark of Xuande within a double ring in underglaze blue.

10 3/8 inches, 26.3 cm diameter.

Kangxi, 1662-1722.