A rare blue and white kosometsuke shell-shaped, incense box and cover, kogo made for the Japanese market, circa 1600-1640

Worked to one side in various levels of relief with a scholar standing in a fenced garden, beneath the moon and a pine tree, the

The animal recumbent with its head turned to the left and its tail curving upward and resting on its hind quarters, the stone of a pale

Naturalistically carved in shallow relief with lotus and lingzhi to the head and prunus, peony and pine to the shaft and narcissus to the ruyi-shaped terminal. 

The recumbent animal with its head turned to the left to face its hind quarters, its legs tucked under its body, its longer left horn resting

Carved with a rounded peach issuing from flowering branches and supporting a lingzhi Length: 5cm  Provenance: Purchased from Pacific Antiques, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, 2007.

The sides worked in shallow relief with a retreat in a mountainous river landscape, with a handle to each side, the flat upper surface worked with