This lot comprises two porcelain items related to a Chinese scholar’s studio. The first is a small jar of compressed globular form, decorated in a Doucai style with polychrome enamels. The decoration depicts a bird perched on a flowering prunus branch. The piece is accented with a ruyi-head border in green, yellow, and red enamels around the foot, and a repeating geometric floral band at the rim. The base features a four-character apocryphal seal mark in iron red, likely reading Qianlong Nian Zhi. The second item is a water dropper modelled in the form of a crouching mythical beast, a shishi or lion dog. The figure is shaped in relief with features highlighted in underglaze blue. The base is unglazed and flat. Both items are consistent with 20th-century production.
Exterior diameter: 11.5 cm
Interior diameter: 9.5 cm.
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