Four porcelain dishes


Hizen wareEdo period (1615-1868), 17th/18th centuryComprising a circular Shoki-Imari dish decorated in underglaze cobalt blue with a single bird perched in a tree, the reverse with stylized clouds and inscribed Kyumei; a lobed, lozenge-shaped dish with geese by a marsh, the surrounding areas painted with a geometric ground separated by swirling waves, the rim brown iron oxide; a lobed, lozenge-shaped dish of Kutani type decorated in underglaze cobalt blue and polychrome enamels with a lone fisherman on a riverbank, the interior sides with fruiting vines below a brown iron-oxide rim, the reverse with chrysanthemum scroll and fretwork surrounding the foot painted with a stylized Fuku (Happiness) mark; and a dish molded in the form of a fish decorated in underglaze cobalt, the reverse with persimmons and an apocryphal Ming-dynasty reign mark. 7 5/8in (19.4cm) diameter of largest