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Seto ware ceramic tea caddy (without its lid). Cylindrical form curving gently inward at base, and more sharply at shoulder minimal neck, rounded lip. Flat, unglazed base showing dark brown body. Thick opaque coffee-coloured glaze, thinning slightly over lip, pools into a dark brown-black ring which ends below lip in an iridescent streak falling over the shoulder.
An octagonal ceramic jar with a flat base, shoulders that slope sharply to short collar and a wide mouth. Heavy porcelaneous body is slipped in white. Painted in dark brown on one facet with five characters, below which is an oval cartouche, and from these, there is a peony spray of dark brown leaves with lighter brown flowers, spreading horizontally over two adjoining panels. Both cartouche outline and flower petals are emphasized with incising through to the under lying slip. All beneath an over all heavy transparent glaze. An even network of crackling shows extensive light purple and brown staining.
Inverted pear-shaped ceramic vase is surmounted by a tall ridged cylindrical neck terminating in a broadly flared five-lobed mouth. The heavy grey-white body is iron speckled. There is a broadly flared unglazed foot ring and an unglazed base. The thin glossy pale blue-green glaze falls unevenly short of and in some places over the foot. There is the patterned under glaze with swirling groups of evenly spaced parallel lines, known as "combing". The glaze pools over these and also over irregularities in the body, including a gouge in the neck. Paper label reads "2 lj 4".
A mallet shaped ceramic vase with an angled rounded lower body which angles inward, tapering into a cylindrical neck that has two handles in the shape of a phoenix. Foot ring cut from base. Light yellow-brown body with thick, opaque, grey-blue-green slightly lustrous glaze covering entire vessel, stopping just short of base. Glaze has wide crackle, yellow-brown in colour. Paper label reads "1 JLS 2.2".
Bowl with flared top and rolled mouth rim. Rim at base is raised 1 cm. Inside bottom is convex with blue-grey mark in centre. Double line around inside near bottom. Glaze is smooth, but rough inside under glaze. Free style flowers, leaves and fungus around outside.
Bowl with light blue glaze with dark blue designs on outside of a berry and flower spray, grass and 3 circles. The foot ring is 1 cm. deep with a double blue circle on outside. Single blue line around base of bowl on outside. Blue line around outer side and on inside lip. Blue dot inside at bottom and double blue line inside near bottom.
Interior panel has outdoor scene with ladies in front of a building with border of floral design and butterflies and band of geometric motif around rim. Exterior has geometric band around rim and at neck of base, and has a phoenix design on royal blue. Inscription on underside of base.
Interior has a scene with two priests seated in the garden. Exterior is decorated with a leaf pattern. All in blue and white. Top rim is painted brown. Unmarked.
Athenian black glass table amphora. The jar is made of light red-brown, very fine-grained clay with fine gold mica. Lustrous black glaze over entire surface except for angular moldings, oval shaped body with sharp carination at top where body curves inwards to meet neck. Short tubular neck, blaring trumpet rim, graceful handles follow the outline of the neck before curving out and downwards to join the shoulder.
Pale green-gray sanwa kōrai-yaki (三和高麗焼) porcelain bodied jar on single ring foot. Squat compressed spherical shape, lentoid in transverse cross-section, contracting to mouth, with rim turned slightly outward. Orange biscuit exposed around foot. Thick crackled and transparent grey-green glaze. Inlaid on upper surface are three sets of two cranes facing opposite directions, in black and white enclosed by white circle. Between circles are three small white irregular designs.