Jar with dark blue ground with gilt dragons decoration

Bottle Vase with Gilded Dragon Among Clouds Motifs

China

Qing dynasty (1644-1912), Kangxi period (1662-1722)

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Title Page, from Momoyogusa (A World of Things), Volume 3, Kamisaka Sekka, ink and color on paper
Blue-and-White Bowl with Confucious and a Woodcutter Interior and Confucious Traveling Exterior
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/61946: "?? Chime (Qing) for Linzhong (8th note in the 12-note scale) dated 1716, China. The manufacture of sonorous stones for decoration or music from carved or cut jade may be traced to the end of the late Eastern Zhou period (ca. 771–221 B.C.) and followed in a tradition of L-shaped stone chimes known from about 1700 B.C. The great importance of sonorous substances such as wood and stone among the percussion instruments of East Asia stems from the religious belief that, through this vibrating matter, nature itself speaks to the human ear. Highly polished slabs were decorated with tiger, lion, or dragon motifs."
Selling Flowers (.20, recto); Ferry Boat (.21, verso), Attributed to Kusakabe Kimbei, hand-colored albumen prints mounted to album page