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Carved mask of a human face. The green-brown face has semi-circular cut out hole eyes outlined by black and surrounded by a white tapering oval and an area around the eyes in suggestion of an ovoid shape with wide black brows above. The large protruding nose has the nostrils cut out. The open red mouth is showing ten white bared upper teeth. The moustache and the goatee are skin pieces. Wrinkles are carved in the forehead and in the cheeks. Skin and leather tongs are attached.
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.
A bowl with gilded scallop rim and foot ring. The exterior depicts plants and flowers of which two blue and two orange peonies are the most prominent. The interior depicts a bat amidst a peach tree. The underside has a six character seal in underglazed blue and two adhesives each with hand-written and inked letters and numbers. Seal is identified as being of the Jia Qing Period (1796-1820 C.E.) of the Qing Dynasty.
A bowl with everted rim and foot ring. The exterior is decorated with four gilt bordered medallions with various landscape scenes against a blue enamel background of scrolled clouds and incised feather motifs. The medallions recount scenes from the legend of the spinning maid and the cowherd. One medallion depicts a female figure encircled by scrolling clouds standing on a bridge of magpies while another depicts a male figure encircled by scrolling clouds on a cow atop a bridge of magpies. The remaining two medallions each depict the couple within a garden scene of gazebo, trees, rocks and stars. The interior is painted in underglazed blue with the couple and cow within a garden scene in a central medallion. Scrolling clouds and birds decorate the side. Bottom of bowl has a hand painted six character seal in underglazed blue and two pieces of adhesives each with handwritten inked words and numbers. Seal mark is that of the Qing Dynasty, Tao Kuang reign.
A bowl with everted rim and foot ring. The exterior surface is decorated with four gilt bordered medallions with various landscape scenes against a blue enamel background of scrolled clouds and incised feather motifs. The medallions recount scenes from the legend of the spinning maid and the cowherd. One medallion depicts a female figure encircled by scrolling clouds standing on a bridge of magpies while another depicts a male figure encircled by scrolling clouds on a cow atop a bridge of magpies. The remaining two medallions each depict the couple within a garden scene of gazebo, trees, rocks and stars. The interior is painted in underglazed blue with the couple and cow within a garden scene in a central medallion. Scrolling clouds and birds decorate the side. Bottom of bowl has a hand painted six character seal in underglazed blue and two pieces of adhesives each with handwritten inked words and numbers. Seal mark is that of the Qing Dynasty, Tao Kuang reign.
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.
A predominantly blue, round, neckless jar with domed lid topped with a small hard relief peach with leaves. The mouth of the jar is nearly as wide as the diameter and has a small sloping rim. The enamelled glaze is thickly applied with stylized peonies alternating with flowering plants and three bats over stone chimes. These motifs are outlined in black and also decorate the domed lid. The interior surfaces are white and undecorated. Four character seal mark at bottom of jar. Two Chinese characters on jar rim and repeated on lid rim. The Chinese characters on jar and lid rim translate to twenty-three. The seal is unidentified.
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.
Dish with high, outward-slanting sides and raised foot ring. Decoration in on interior and consists of cursory blue brush strokes possibly representing a Chinese character encircled and a small character consisting of two squares, one above the other, scratched through the glaze encircled by a lighter blue ring and then an unglazed ring. The sides have two green designs on opposite sides. Unglazed ring above foot reveals reddish body.
Dish with flared sides on raised foot ring. Grey-green glaze with cursory brushed flourishes and concentric circles of darker green. Unglazed ring above foot reveals reddish body.