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Two piece urn, with body (part a) and lid (part b). Made in the form of a palace, in a style called goten-gata zushigame (御殿型厨子甕). The top of the lid has two shachihoko (鯱鉾/鯱), a mythical sea creature with the head of a tiger or dragon, and the body of a fish; between them is a dragon head, with eight dragon heads at the corners. Parts of the inside are glazed brown. The interior is blue and yellow on white. The epitaphs called migachi or miigachi (ミガチ/ミーガチ/銘書) are in Okinawan on the front of the urn and also at the bottom of the lid and the urn.
Vase has cylindrical neck and square body. Two handles are attached to neck. These have ta'o-t'ieh motifs. Rest of vase is decorated with floral design in blue on white. (Mark on bottom reads 'Made in Wan Li 1573-1619 of Ming Dynasty). Part b is a circular wooden stand with three feet.
Ceramic pillow showing polychrome figures in various scenes. Top side has a scene of two robed women facing another with a basket or a bucket . Lower front side has a scene of a robed woman sitting on the right side of the left corner window with an outdoor plant on the bottom right corner. Under side has a scene of robed man facing a robed woman. Lower back side has a scene of robed woman sitting on the left side of the left oval window with a tree crossing the outside right corners. Green key pattern bordering edges. One end has an oval hole, and the other end has a cut out design of two overlapping circles.
Large globular shape jar with wide mouth, short neck and four vertical lugs on the shoulder. Each lug is grooved and has a simple dao die mask design. Just under the lugs is a narrow band of tyre track-like motif and three horizontal dragons amid waves. There are two borders of lotus on the shoulder and base. The lip has a set of inked numbers.
Globular jar with relatively narrow base, neck and mouth. The mouth rim is slightly flared. The remaining two of the four lugs are positioned on the shoulder. The body design consists of three bands of incised floral motif. The lugs are deeply incised with parallel lines giving a rope-like appearance. The lip has a set of inked numbers.
Heavily potted bulbous jar with a wide mouth, thick everted lip and three vertical lugs (one missing). The interior, mouth, area above bottom and underside are unglazed. The shoulder has a band of scrolling wave design. The lugs are positioned equidistant within this band. The main body motif are two pairs of moulded arching three-clawed dragon with sweeping tails each chasing a ball set in high relief. Inked number on lip.
A heavily potted globular jar with wide mouth and six vertical lugs on the shoulder. The lugs are of the dao die mask design. Alternating between the lugs are moulded horizontal dragons and incised flowers. The main body motif are two bands of sinuous and stylized floral design. The interior, base and underside are unglazed. A set of inked numbers on lip.
Globular-shape jar with medium size mouth, everted lip and four vertical lugs on shoulder. The base is unglazed. Interior is also unglazed except for neck and small glaze pool at bottom. Two coils of metal wire just under lip with a small twisted knot and a set of inked numbers on neck.
A tall globular jar with wide mouth, narrow flat base and six lugs on the shoulder. Just below the lugs are three horizontal three-toed dragons. The lugs are in the shape of dao die masks. The lower quarter of the jar is unglazed.
A bulbous jar with wide mouth, fairly long neck and five vertical lugs. The main body motif is two bands of floral design. The first narrow band of flowers just under the lugs is condensed and stylized. The second band is much wider and consists of a sparse floral design in fine bass relief. Large kiln defect on one side. A set of inked numbers on lip.