TWO JAPANESE IMARI SAKE BOTTLES, TOKKURI

EDO PERIOD, 18TH OR 19TH CENTURY

Both mallet-shaped, raised on a short foot and with a tall neck, the bodies decorated in underglaze blue, gilt, red, green and yellow enamels, moulded with large bell-shaped panels enclosing a writhing dragon and a tiger amongst prunus flowers and rockwork, with figures under sakura blossoms in between, the shoulder with Buddhist emblems, ho-ho birds and peonies, both with a Chinese mark for Da Ming Chenghua nian zhi, both 31cm. (2)