TWO JAPANESE EGG SHELL PORCELAIN SAUCERS, LATE 19TH/EARLY 20TH CENTURY, the first very delicately and thinly potted with hand-painted polychrome decoration in fine detail of a Samurai teacher instructing two kneeling warrior youths beneath a pine tree with Mount Fuji in the background with gilt accents on figures and border rim, verso short conforming foot enclosing three-character mark in black with gilt strokes, diameter: 5 1/2"; the second a thinly potted porcelain plate with hand-painted polychrome scene of peonies and other flowers alongside an embankment with Mount Fuji in the background, magpies flying above branches and on rocks below floral sprays within a red and gilt painted rim, verso circular foot with blue painted three-character mark, diameter: 7 1/8".

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