Six Metalware Vessels

Six Metalware Vessels, China and Japan, a Chinese cloisonne bottle with three concave sides all decorated with a different flower; a brass handwarmer incised with a lady in a garden on one side, and a landscape on the other; a Japanese stemmed bronze bowl in the form of a lotus plant; a Chinese bronze archaic-style vase with archaic designs and animal heads; a Chinese pewter square planter with inlaid shou characters; and a Japanese diamond-shaped censer with mythical beasts and animals in relief on each of the four sides and an allover incised archaic pattern, with a four-character mark on the base, ht. to 10 1/2 in.