Lot No: 339. Early porcelain. A rare Imari vase. Late 17th century
Of elegant ovoid form with a slender neck, the whole covered with an even dark cobalt-blue glaze. 28.4cm (11¼in) high.- Estimate: £1,000 - 1,500, €1,400 - 2,200
Footnote:
Blue-glazed wares figured among the earliest Japanese porcelains shipped to Europe. For other examples with a similar glaze, see Ko-Imari (Old Imari Porcelain), Toguri Museum of Art, 1991, nos. 121, 123 and 124. See also The Shibata collection, Kyushu Ceramic Museum, vol.3, no.110.

Lot No: 373. Cloisonné enamel. A cloisonné enamel vase.Style of Hayashi Kodenji, Meiji Period
Worked in silver wire with two butterflies, their bodies and wings rendered in a variety of different colours, often with graduations of colour within the cloisons, unsigned. 12.7cm (5in) high.- Estimate: £1,000 - 1,500, €1,400 - 2,200

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