A GROUP OF BLUE AND WHITE WARES Late Ming Dynasty Comprising: a blue and white bowl decorated to the exterior with three gamboling lions amongst peonies and scrolling foliage, the interior with a floral medallion, Yu Tang Jia Qi four character-mark; a small saucer dish with a mountain landscape medallion within a border of birds in a lotus pond, the exterior with birds perched on branches; a small saucer dish with a toad and insects amongst grasses within a border of floral pendants, the exterior with fruiting peach branches; and a moulded Kraak ware dish decorated with a grasshopper on a flowering riverbank within peach shaped border panels enclosing fruit, flowers and precious objects. The dish: 20cm (7 7/8in) diam. (4). Footnotes: 明晚期 青花瓷一組四件 Provenance: Acquired from R & G McPherson Antiques, 2005 (the toad dish)(collector's notes) Acquired from Arthur Harris, London, 2006 (the Kraak ware dish)(collector's notes) Acquired from R & G McPherson Antiques, October 2009 (the mountain landscape dish)(collector's notes) Published and Illustrated: M. White, Eating at the Whites' House: Ceramics from the Mary and Peter White collection, vol. 3, n.p., 2022, p.49 (the lion bowl) For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing