A Large Mid-18thC Japanese Porcelain Kutani Vase c.1740 sub-Architectural & Garden There are old repairs and

There are old repairs and fortifications to the reverses and flanks and some very old worm

This particular example is possibly a convent piece worked by cloistered nuns

The wonderfully imagined nineteenth century English School charcoal drawings each being a shoulder length portrait of an anthropomorphised hound

The absence of the windows of the soul is perhaps a little disconcerting and in this instance it makes the viewer aware of the vulnerability of the subject

Dating from the Italian late Gothic period the weighty and well carved softwood and gesso figure of Christ

A Large Mid-18thC Japanese Porcelain Kutani Vase c.1740 sub-Architectural & Garden There are old repairs andOrigin: Japanese Period: Edo Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1740 60 Height: 21. 75 Base Diameter: 6. 5 Top Diameter: 7 The large Japanese Kutani vase having an ovoid body enamelled and gilt with a woman and child in a garden on a tomato red ground, the reverse with H , diaper, karakusa and other flowers between, the base unmarked, surviving from mid eighteenth century Japan. The vase has considerable age and the rim and lip has at some stage been