With floral decorations of flowering peonies and lotus blooms all encircled by lotus vines and leaves, each of the three feet with a single red lotus flower, a band of scrolls between a double gilt mouth rim ring. Originally a double handled censer. Some losses. 5 in. diam, 3 1/2 in. high
The exterior covered in a pattern of dots and fish fry, the interior with the same pattern within an underglaze blue double circle, a double circle of underglaze blue around the outer and inner mouth rim, two double bands of underglaze blue around the foot, the base glazed. Early Ming. 5 1/2 in. diam.
Rising off of a high foot, the bulbous body slopping to a short neck in the form of a pear shaped vase, the exterior covered with a smooth gray crackle glaze interspersed with short brown lines in the Geyao Song style that extends down into the mouth but stops neatly at the foot to show the unglazed grey ware of the base, a three character collector's mark on the base. 17th/18th C. 6 1/4 in. high.
Well potted with a soft celadon/longquan glaze covering the interior and exterior, pooling slightly at the everted rim, a lightly carved chrysanthemum in the caveto, the glaze stopping at the knife carved foot exposing the unglazed biscuit. Yuan/Ming. 5 3/4 in. diam.
With a rich celedon glaze sitting on a splayed foot, the body carved with lotus tendrils and leaves, the shoulders rising to a molded double ring at the base of the neck which flares to an everted mouth, the base partially glazed. 8th/19th C. 6 in. high
Rare "heap and pile" underglaze blue and white scalloped saucer dish, the interior cavetto depicting the "three friends of winter" within a circling band of decoration, a multitude of stylized tendrils encircling the interior to the rim, the exterior with lotus tendrils, the glaze pooling neatly at the foot, the recessed base with a four character mark in underglaze blue reading " Riches and honor equal to everlasting Spring". Wanli Mark, 19th C. 5 7/8 in. diam.
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