The detachable bearded figure is known as Kin Kao (the recluse of Chao) holding a scroll in his hands and sitting on a carp, which is resting on his tail and fins with two stylised waves underneath, the details finely engraved.
China, Qing Dynasty, 18th century.
Height: 15 cm, Width 20 cm.
The compressed globular body surmounted by a tall arched neck terminating in a stylized goose head, the top with an aperture, a thin band around the neck.
China, Qing Dynasty, 17th-18th century.
Height : 22 cms
Finely cast in three parts, the lower part of the body together with the legs, the lid formed by the upper part with the wings and neck, the head detachable.
China, Qing Dynasty, 18th century.
Height 14.5 cms , Width: 14 cms
Raised on three blade-form legs, the deep rounded sides rising to a wide everted rim with U-shaped spout and pair of capped posts rising from the rim, cast around the body with a band of meandering motifs, the c-scroll handle with an animal mask.
China, Qing Dynasty, 17th-18th century.
Height: 17,8 cm.
The flattened round body on a high splayed foot, long neck with a bulbous band of lozenges, animal-masks ring handles, the neck with four lappets, a band around the body and foot, all decorated with Song-style motifs.
China, Qing Dynasty, 18th century.
Height: 24,8 cm.
The figure dressed in a long blue robe over a white one is standing with his arms before his chest while holding a shoe, his right bare foot visible from under his long robe.
China, Qing Dynasty, 18th. century.
Height: 26 cm.
The lid carved and incised with a coiling dragon between clouds and above rocks, enclosed by a band of two swirling dragons chasing a pearl above water, repeated on the base of the box, all on a punched background.
China, Qing Dynasty, 18th century.
Diameter: 12,4 cm.
Cast with two large taotie masks on either side of the body against a leiwen background, the animal masks handles with lappets, the high foot with archaic bird motifs, the base with a six-character Xuande mark in a square.
China, Qing Dynasty, 17th-18th century.
Height: 9,1 cm.
The monkey sitting with his left hand on his hip and holding a peach with his right hand his nipples executed in copper, the spout in the shape of a bamboo trunk, the base with a two character mark SHENG HE in a rectangular.
China, Kangxi era ( 1662-1722)
Height: 13,3 cm.
Width: 20 cm.
Similar pieces are to be found in Kangxi porcelains.
The Immortal, rarely depicted in bamboo is resting with his left foot on his crutch while holding a
his gourd-shaped flask in his left hand.
China, Qing Dynasty, 18th.-19th. century.
Height: 32 cm.
