Asian Art at Marchant

Japanese porcelain celadon glazed ewer and cover with ovoid body, tall slender neck, hexagonal fluted spout and strap handle, with upright loop for attachment, covered overall on the base and interior with an even celadon olive glaze, the thin unglazed biscuit foot rim revealing the body, the drop-in cover surmounted by a bird-form finial.

10 inches, 25.4 cm high.

Kawase Shinobu, 1997.

Fitted wood box, described as ‘celadon water ewer’, signed and with artist’s seal, Shinobu, on the interior of the cover.

Japanese porcelain celadon lavender glazed cylindrical flower vase, mizusashi or bitong, with five petalled rim, the wide cylindrical body above two ribs at the foot and beneath a gently flared rim with the glaze thinning, covered overall on the base and the interior in an even celadon lavender Ru-type glaze, the biscuit foot rim brown.

6 ¾ inches, 17.1 cm high.

Kawase Shinobu, 1983.

Wood box, described as ‘celadon flower vase’, signed and with artist’s seal, Shinobu, on the interior of the cover and the orange cloth.

Chinese imperial porcelain doucai deep saucer dish, pan, painted in the centre with two branches of tree peony bearing large yellow, iron-red and aubergine blooms, amongst lime and apple-green leaves, issuing from pierced taihu rockwork, between sprays of bamboo and beneath two butterflies in flight and within two underglaze blue borders, with a further underglaze blue line beneath the rim. The exterior painted with large branches of chrysanthemum and hibiscus amongst rockwork and smaller sprays of aster, pink and bamboo, with two butterflies in flight above two underglaze blue lines and beneath a further line at the rim.

The base with a six-character mark of Yongzheng within a double ring in underglaze blue and of the period, 1723-1735.

8 ¼ inches, 21 cm diameter.