M4740

A Japanese porcelain Kakiemon polychrome deep bowl with foliate lobed upright brown dressed rim, painted on the exterior with two elaborate-tailed birds in flight between branches of bamboo, leaves and rockwork, the interior with flowering branches of plum blossom amongst rockwork, all painted in luminous tones of blue, turquoise and iron red enamels. The glazed base with a single ring in underglaze blue and a spur mark. The white fine biscuit foot rim revealing the body.

8 ½ inches, 21.5cm diameter.

1680-1700

Japanese porcelain kakiemon lobed and fluted teapot and cover, the ten fluted sides painted with branches of flowering plants in iron-red with lapis blue enamel branches and leaves, heightened with turquoise rock work and further leaves, beneath stylised clouds and with a ruyi-band on the shoulder in iron red, the handle and spout with turquoise scrolls, the cover similarly decorated beneath a pierced bud finial.

5 2/4 inches, 14.6 cm handle to spout.

1680-1700.

A Japanese Arita porcelain octagonal bowl with lobed everted rim, painted on the exterior in coloured enamels; green, yellow and turquoise, iron-red, gilt and underglaze blue, with continuous aster flowers and scrolling branches of foliage, the interior well with a large chrysanthemum bloom on a circular branch within a double ring, all below eight alternating panels of flowering chrysanthemum and daisies, below the everted rim with a band of triangular gilt branch with single bloom on a blue ground, alternating with coloured and gilt branches of flowers, the base with an underglaze blue double-ring.

22.5 cm, 8 7/8 inches diameter.

Circa 1720.