TWO JAPANESE POLYCHROME BOWLS

TWO JAPANESE POLYCHROME BOWLS
EDO AND LATER, 17TH CENTURY AND LATER

The first with a foliate body, decorated in the Kakiemon style with a prancing kirin, the cavetto with pomegranates and prunus flowers on leafy branches, the reverse with another spray of prunus and flowers floating on the breeze; the other shaped as a curled-up lotus leaf, with various insects painted inside and out, the base impressed with a seal mark; together with a Chinese mammoth tooth seal with two lion dogs disputing a brocade ball, 13.2cm max. (3)