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Japanese porcelain celadon lavender glazed ribbed vase of Ru-type with ribbed body, bamboo-form neck and upright rim, covered overall on the base and interior with an even celadon lavender crackled glaze thinning at the narrow ribs, the foot brown.

12 inches, 30.5 cm high.

Kawase Shinobu, 1982.

Wood box, described as ‘celadon flower vase’, signed and with artist’s seal, Shinobu, on the interior of the cover and the orange cloth.

Chinese superbly hollowed white jadeite snuff bottle of rounded form with gently recessed foot rim, carved on the entire body with archaic style scrolls, linked to form bands beneath the cylindrical neck, incised with a continuous keyfret.

Malachite and gilt metal stopper.

2 1/8 inches, 5.3 cm high without stopper.

1820-1860.

Chinese porcelain famille rose export “Mandarin” pattern erotic punch bowl, painted with ladies seated on rock work in landscape scene with their attendants, beside a river landscape with a village in the background, the other side with standing figures and further seated figures beside buildings, dispersed between reserves of pink flower heads and gilt ground, the underside with a satyr in an erotic scene with a naked lady, with a daybed and curtains, with a winged cherub leaving the scene and a bird underneath observing the scene, the interior with a floral sprays, beneath a spearhead border.

10 ¼ inches, 25.9 cm diameter.

Qianlong, circa 1770.