A Japanese painting in sumi and colour on cloth depicting a fierce snarling tiger with mouth open and fangs showing prowling through tall grasses -- 43¼in.x 18in.; a smaller painting of a prowling tiger on rockwork with its head raised and mouth open -- 15in.x 18in.; another with a peacock and peahen perched on rockwork surrounded by peonies -- 45in.x 17¾in.; and a painting with a bird in flight above prunus, peonies, daisies and irisis -- 44in.x 18in., all signed. (4)