the ovoid body decorated with two shaped panels, the first with figures attending the Cherry Blossom Festival, the second with sprays of lilies, chrysanthemums and peonies, divided by further panels decorated with Buddhist and scholar's emblems, musical instruments and tea ceremony accoutrements, against a brocaded ground highlighted with fans, bamboo and flowerheads, the shoulder and neck similarly decorated, 13,7cm high; and a Japanese Satsuma bowl, Meiji period, 1868-1912, the centre decorated with courtiers, a bijin and their attendants enclosed by foliate borders interspersed with four medallions decorated with samurai, scholars and flowers, wavy rim, the reverse with further sprays of flowers between gilt and black borders, signed, 13cm wide