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Round eleven-lobed shallow dish with thick whitish-grey glaze dripping on rim. The cavetto is decorated with a series of vertical grooves. The grooves are in varying degrees of shallowness with parts of the cavetto almost smooth. These grooves are more prominent on the underside of the dish. The foot ring is unglazed. Three inked marks in black, white and red on the underside.
Round porcelain dish on high round foot, decorated with an underglaze blue comb pattern; glazed base; slightly thickened sides support a flat red-brown rim. Inside: painted in blue underglaze with two broad horizontal bands of wave motifs, separated by a narrow band of white; broad white band below second wave band. Superimposed in overglazed enamels on the bottom band of wave motif is an open camellia, white tinged with red, and a red bud, all supported by green and yellow edged leaves and blue buds on a blue stem. Centred above on the wave bands is an upright blue stem with three green leaves and a blue bud. Outside patterned with four ribboned wealth motifs in underglaze blue.
Underglaze blue. Two blue borders with red and gold sections every 90 degrees; in between blue bands is a red band with red and gold arabesques and shaped panels of green and blue. Circular landscape panel in the centre. Unmarked.
White pitcher with a flat base, double rounded body, short neck and narrow mouth. The lower body rounds in to a narrow middle, before rounding out again to form the upper body. The handle and spout attach once to each the upper and lower bodies. The handles is in the shape of a small dragon. Brown-black spots symmetrically but widely spaced on the glaze. Opaque, unctuous, blue tinged glaze falls short of base in places.
Mask depicting a laughing human face which represents Sanbasō (三番叟; third okina elderly person), also known as Kokushikijō (黒色尉/黒式尉; black okina). The mask has an open mouth, white chin beard, eyebrows, and moustache made of hair. The face is dark brown with red lips as well as eye, nose, and mouth openings. It has a movable chin (切顎; kiriago) connected by white cords. An "A" is inscribed inside, at the side of the chin.
Footed bowl with scalloped rim. Interior is glazed turquoise except for a white band at the rim; exterior has butterfly and floral designs on sides and orange wavy and straight line design on side of foot. Red stamp on inside of foot.
A small shallow repaired celadon dish with one large and a few small missing pieces on rim. The glaze is glassy, smooth, crackled and covers the entire dish except the underside and a little of the foot ring. The centre is moulded with a single floral design. A finely textured grey body is revealed at the chipped areas. There is a prominent ridge at the base where the side joins the foot ring. A set of inked letter and numbers is written on the underside.
Eight-lobed Kakiemon style dish, everted lip, fine white porcelain body: low foot rim unglazed; base glazed, only two spur marks apparent, underglaze blue line at junction with foot. Interior: blossom spray on bottom asymmetrically placed, outlined and painted in underglaze blue, separated from walls by double underglaze blue lines; walls have scattered landform shapes in overglaze enamels, blue, green, and yellow as well as red prunus blossoms; double underglaze blue lines at lip. Exterior walls: double underglaze blue lines at junction with foot, and one above; scattered overglaze blue blossoms, outlined in black.
Ceramic teapot (part a) with lid (part b). Teapot has square base and grooved foot. On each of the four surfaces at bottom, there is a row of three rising blade cicada motifs. The teapot form curves outward into baluster shape. Just below the shoulder, a moulded band of k'uei dragons is interrupted by squared spout springing from a monster mouth. Opposite, there is a handle with a zoomorphic design. Rounded shoulder flattens to square collar. Fitting within is the flange of a slightly domed square lid, surmounted by a hare. On base is white paper label printed in blue with intricately entwined initials in European style: possibly "W.W.W."
Hexagonal-shaped teapot (part a) with lid (part b). Teapot tapering slightly outwards from flat base supported at intersections of adjoining planes by low feet. Unglazed body is a lustrous dark red-brown. Hexagonal spout, yoke handle rising from flat shoulders ornamented by moulded scrolling band. Sides consist of two alternating designs on moulded panels with both being variations of fish-dragons on waves. Flat lid with design of three dragons has flange fitting snugly within short hexagonal collar.