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Pair of Chinese porcelain famille verte large two handled fish bowls, painted on both sides with branches of flowering peony amongst daisies, with chrysanthemum sprays beneath the biscuit lion mask handles, all between iron-red bands of stylised leaves and chrysanthemum flower heads, the waist with reserves of flowers on a geometric iron-red and gilt ground with chrysanthemum flower heads, each interior painted with forty-one carp, two shrimp and two crabs amongst aquatic plants, all beneath the flat everted lipped rim, painted with reserves of fish alternating with shrimp on a geometric cash diaper ground with chrysanthemum flower heads and scrolls on the rim.

The rim 23 inches, 58.5 cm diameter.
35 inches, 89 cm overall height on stands.
15 3/4 inches, 40 cm high without stands.

Kangxi, circa 1715, together with later European gilt wood stands.

Pair of Chinese high-fired tilework garden seats, zuodun, each pierced on the body with an interlocking drum shaped design, covered in an apple-green glaze, both ends in rich amber glaze with high relief studs.

18 ½ inches, 47 cm high.

Early Kangxi, 17th century.

A Chinese porcelain blue and white vase of double gourd form, painted on the body with blossoming prunus on a cracked-ice ground with “blobby dots” on the rim, the underside with a leaf mark within a double ring.

7 ½ inches, 19.1 cm high.

Early Kangxi, circa 1680.