Description A GROUP OF FOUR SMALL GLAZED CERAMIC ITEMSJapan, 19th century. Comprising two small boxes with lids, one molded as a bag and glazed in green, sealed to the underside, and the other molded as a fruit and glazed in hues of brown and brick-red. A box-like lobed decorative object, painted with stylized decorative designs and partially covered in an irregular green glaze, and a leaf-shaped bowl covered in a yellow glaze. Two objects with collector's labels 'J.W.N. van Achterbergh'.Condition: Good condition with minor wear and firing flaws. The decorative object with a chip to the foot rim and the bag-shaped container with tiny glaze flakes to the interior. Provenance: The J.W.N. van Achterbergh collection. Family collection of either Felix Tikotin (1893-1986) or his son-in-law Louis (Loek) Borensztajn (1935-2021), Netherlands, acquired from the above. J.W.N. van Achterbergh was an important collector, expert and patron of Dutch post-war ceramics. Felix Tikotin (1893-1986) was an architect, art collector, dealer, and founder of the first Museum of Japanese Art in the Middle East. He became one of the world's leading collectors of Japanese art, starting at the age of 18, and continued to collect and work as an art dealer in Berlin in the 1920s. In the 1930s Felix Tikotin fled from the Nazis and hid his collection in the Netherlands. After the war, he decided that his collection should be taken to Israel, where in 1959 and with the help of Abba Hushi, who was the mayor of Haifa, The Tikotin Museum of Japanese Art was established. The Museum's collection comprises more than 8,000 items of art and crafts.Weight: 400.8 g in totalDimensions: Height 2.4 – 6 cm