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A soft-paste porcelain plate with scalloped edge decorated in the Imari style with the "Old Japan Fan" pattern, with underglaze blue and overglaze red and green "fans" highlighted in gold on each of the four sides, and with four blue roundels with gold highlights in between, in the center is a large chrysanthemum motif in gold with a red and green center and blue band around, on the underside of the rim is a pattern of trailing floral vines in blue with red floral motifs.
Knife of solid agateware, the handle of pistol shape and marbleized in shades of brown, blue and beige, with steel scimitar-shaped knife blade.
Small footed, irregularly round bowl of reddish earthenware covered with a greenish ash glaze, which is runny, drippy and scorched in spots, it runs irregularly down the sides of the bowl leaving part of the foot unglazed.
Bulb pot of solid light blue jasper with applied white jasper relief decoration and conforming solid white insert cover to hold the bulbs, molded and square in shape with an arched gallery around the top, the foot with a band of stiff leaf motifs, each side with a square panel each containing a classical scene, one is Sacrifice to Aesculapius, or a tripod vessel with fruit and other things, below the upper edge a band of palmettes the arches with fan motifs and paterae at each corner, the white insert cover rests inside.