Ivory figure of Jurojin. Japanese deity of longevity, in his right hand a long staff or peach branch, his left hand is clutching at his long beard. His robes are incised at the borders with a diamo...

Ivory ornamental model of a ship with carved wooden stand. The ship which represents a ship of fortune or treasure ship, 'takarabune', has seven figures on board, some seated under a canopy and aro...

Carved ivory figure of Jurojin, Japanese deity of longevity. Ivory body tinted in red, black and gold. The figure holds a peach wood staff in his right hand. His elongated head is covered by intric...

Five carved ivory figures and a drum on long wooden base. One man is holding a tea-bowl, another a box and covered bowl, a third man, Budai, is holding a begging bowl, a fourth man has one arm rais...

Teapot depicting 'The Prodigal Son in Excess' and 'The Prodigal Son in Misery'. Creamware, globular body with raised rim. Shoulder and rim of cover each with rouletted key-fret band picked out with...

Moulded dish (crespina) with 'a quartiere' decoration and a bound figure. At the centre, a holed figure, probably intended as St. Sebastian, although the arrows of his martyrdom are not depicted; t...

Plate with 'Samson and Delilah'. Tin-glazed earthenware painted brightly. Delilah stands over samson and has just cut a lock of hair, which she holds in her left hand, and a pair of scissors in her...

Dish (crespina) with scene of figure on horseback. Tin-glazed earthenware, brightly painted in the istoriato style. A mounted figure gives money a seated figure, possibly a biblical scene.

Large earthenware dish with an incised scene of the The Nativity. Elaborate scraffito decoration of depicts The Nativity with a scrolling band of foliage around the rim. The reverse, incised with a...

Black-glazed pedestal salt. Earthenware probably made locally in Staffordshire.