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5. Above: Chinese porcelain: figure of Kwan Yin (Goddess of Mercy)
decorated with splashes of green, yellow and aubergine (brown-purple),
K'ang Hsi; plate painted in blue with the coat-of-arms of James, first
Earl of Charlemont, who was created an Earl in 1763; Te-Hua white
porcelain figure of Kwan Yin, eighteenth century; small bowl with farnille
rose decoration, late eighteenth century; wine bottle with famille verte
decoration, K'ang Hsi, late seventeenth century.

6. Below: Japanese works of art: dagger with bronze handle (Kodzuka)
inlaid with a pattern of fishes by lchijoshi Hirotoshi; two-fold screen in
Shibayama work on gold lacquer in a carved ivory frame; circular sword
mount (Tsuba) of iron inset with gold; ivory carving of two mice with a hen's
egg; gold lacquer box and cover in the form of Daikoku (a mythological
character), by Yoshikawa Joshinsai; wood carving of a cat seated on a
melon and being dragged along by seven rats, signed by Homtn; a gold
lacquer Inro with a design of flying cranes, by Kajikawa, with a lacquer
Ojime and a flat circular Netsuke.

7. Above: Continental eighteenth-century porcelain: Furstenburg bust of
the poet Horace, 1810; Dresden dish painted with flowers, 1760; Zurich
tea caddy, 1770; Dresden group of two (overs, 1750; Dresden saucer
painted with a mock-Oriental scene, 1735; Sevres plate, 1760; Doccia
needlecase, 1760.

8. Below: Late seventeenth-century Mortlake tapestry of boys playing at
acrobatics.

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