Underglaze Copper-Red

Chinese porcelain celadon-ground large rouleau vase, with high shoulder, galleried rim and single ribbed neck, carved and applied with Shoulao and two attendants, one holding a basket while looking back, the other with scrolls tided in a bundle, all in a continuous landscape scene with two cranes, one in flight and one perched on an elaborate pine tree heightened in white slip and underglaze copper red deer, all beneath the full white slip decorated moon, on a rich and even celadon ground, the base with two underglaze blue rings.

Chinese porcelain cylindrical brushpot with grooved upper edge painted on slightly raised white slip in underglaze blue and copper-red with five images of Kui Xing in different poses holding pen and bushell measure, a book or prunus spray at his feet, on a celadon ground, the glazed base rim and central circular recess separated by a wide biscuit rim.

Chinese imperial porcelain underglaze blue and copper-red bottle vase with tapered baluster body, chang jing ping, tall cylindrical neck and lipped rim, painted with an open-mouthed three-clawed chilong dragon encircling the body, the scales in underglaze copper-red.

Chinese porcelain blue and white and underglaze copper-red large ovoid jardinière with gently lipped rim, painted in a continuous mountain river landscape scene with a fisherman in his boat and another casting his net from a rocky promontory beside a willow and viewing pavilion, with large pine trees and underglaze copper-red wutong with two other standing scholars looking across the lake amongst rockwork, plants, pavilions all between underglaze blue lines, the base unglazed.

Chinese porcelain blue and white and underglaze copper-red thinly potted shallow bowl, painted on the interior with a central flowering lotus plant with leaves, bud and arrowhead, surrounded by sprays of prunus, lily and chrysanthemum, beneath a single underglaze blue line at the rim, the exterior with two stylised branches beneath two rings at the rim, the base with a six-character mark of Xuande within a single ring.

A Chinese porcelain small tea jar with ovoid body and short flared mouth, painted in underglaze blue and copper-red with two sections divided by double rings, the upper with poem in underglaze blue and seals in copper-red, the lower with flowering plants in copper-red and underglaze blue, the base unglazed.