A Chinese blue and white tapering beaker vase painted with a bird perched on rockwork below magnolia on a crackled ground between bronzed bands at the foot and neck -- 17½in high; a similar vase and domed cover with Buddhistic lion finial, painted with a continuous band of figures before buildings in a rocky mountainous landscape -- 18in high; a globular jar and domed cover painted with flowering prunus on a cracked ice pattern ground -- 9in high; and a blue and white saucer painted with a central roundel of vases of flowers and censers, the rim with flowersprays on a cracked ice pattern ground -- 13½in diam. (4)