BRITISH AND CONTINENTAL CERAMICS AND GLASS, ORIENTAL CERAMICS AND WORKS OF ART

A Japanese earthenware tea service, each piece panelled with figures and landscapes on a blue and gilt ground, comprising teapot and cover, sugar basi

A 19th century Chinese ginger jar and a cover decorated in blue with dragons within cartouches on a prunus and cracked ice ground, 28cm £100-150

A large Chinese jar, decorated in underglaze blue in Transitional style with figures, rocks and plantains, 39cm high, 19th century (see illustration)

A large oriental export ovoid vase and cover enamelled in colours with panels of flowers on an iron red ground scattered with fans, 64cm, gilt metal f

Burghley Revisited: The Discovery of Two Pieces of Early Arita Porcelain The recent discovery of two pieces of early enamelled Japanese porcelain in a

An Arita vase in the form of a lady holding a basket and standing by a naturalistically modelled stump of a pine tree with a flower at ther feet, pick

A Japanese Imari charger, boldly decorated in underglaze blue and enamels with a leaping carp beneath a flowering prunus, the border with panels of pe

A large Japanese Imari ovoid vase, decorated in underglaze blue, iron red and gilt with a crane amongst prunus issuing from pierced rockwork, 56cm, 18

A pair of Japanese Imari ovoid vases, each decorated with lappet shaped panels of birds and flowers in iron red on a peony ground with peony borders,

A Japanese Imari dish, decorated with a stylised mon within three panels of birds and dragons and within a lappet panelled cell diaper border, 46cm, 1