R9296

Chinese porcelain blue and white small Kraak saucer moulded and thinly potted with upright foliate rim, painted in the centre with a cricket standing on a rock between flowering camellia and buds and beneath an insect in flight and overhanging rockwork, encircled by a border with panels of fruits, scrolls, flowers and leaves.

5 3/8 inches, 13.6 cm diameter.

Wanli, 1573-1619.

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.

Chinese porcelain blue and white baluster vase with single-ribbed neck and galleried rim, painted on the body with three qilins standing on rocks amongst billowing and crested waves and sea spray, with stylised flames being emitted from their mouths, the ribbed neck with bands of lappets, scrolls and ruyi-heads, all between crenulated bands above the foot and on the rim, the base glazed white.

17 ¼ inches, 43.8 cm high.

Kangxi, circa 1700.