17TH AND 18TH CENTURYComprising: three Chinese Imari saucers and a tea cup, decorated in underglaze blue, gilt, and red with flowers, figures and pagodas; together with a Japanese saucer painted in gilt, red, green, purple, and black enamels with figures in an interior and further bands of flowers and scrolling tendrils, the underside left undecorated, 12.8cm max. (5)Provenance: from an English private collection, London.Cf. The Kyushu Ceramic Museum, Complete Catalogue of Shibata Collection, no.2793, for another Japanese saucer closely related to the one in this lot, which the authors dated to c.1700-30.