M4496

Chinese Longquan celadon two-handled pear-shaped bottle vase, each side moulded with a ruyi-head medallion, one with fu and one with shou-character between leafy branches of flowering camellia, one issuing from waves, the other from rockwork, all between key-fret bands on the neck and everted foot, the upright rim in the form of an open flowerhead, above two stylised elephant-head and ring handles.

20.2 cm high.

Yuan dynasty, 1280-1368.

Japanese wood box and silk holder.

Chinese white ground vase of meiping form painted on the body with three freely drawn peony blooms on branches with leaves between bands, the high shoulder with three leafy branches beneath a double-ring at the neck, the base and foot unglazed revealing the buff stoneware body.

15 inches, 38.1 cm high.

Northern Song – Jin Dynasty, Cizhou kilns, Hebei or Shanxi Province, 12th century.

A wucai hexagonal deep dish with indented brown washed rim, painted in the centre with a lotus pond, a heron stands beside flowering lotus, leaves and aquatic plants with a bird in flight, within a moulded panelled border of six aquatic creatures, fish, toad, terrapin, shrimp, snail and crab on different diaper grounds, sealmark fu (happiness) within a double square.

8 3/8 inches, 21.3cm diameter.

Tianqi/Chongzhen, 1630-1645.