EDO PERIOD, 18TH AND 19TH CENTURYAll three typically decorated in thick blue and green enamels, the first a reticulated Ko-Kiyomizu type vase with a faceted body and a square-section neck, the sides decorated with cash designs and hanabishi mon family crests; another a clove boiler in two parts, painted with a dense pattern of stylised hibiscus flowers and scrolling tendrils, and with fan-shaped apertures; the third piece a double-gourd sake bottle, a large spray of peony to the side, the cork embellished with a chrysanthemum flower carved out of stag antler, 24.5cm max. (5)Provenance: from an English private collection, London.Cf. J Ayers, The Baur Collection, Japanese Ceramics, nos. E82-E83, for two 19th century Kyoto ware pieces decorated in a similar fashion as the sake bottle in this lot.See the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, access. no. 23.225.247 for a similar Kyo-yaki clove boiler by Rakutozan.