Asian Art at Marchant

Japanese porcelain celadon lavender crackle glazed vase with ovoid body, ribbed sloping shoulder, flared tall foot and everted lipped rim, covered overall on the base and interior with an even crackled glaze thinning at the edges, all on a short brown biscuit foot rim.

9 3/8 inches, 23.8 cm high.

Kawase Shinobu, 1982.

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

Pair of Chinese famille verte biscuit porcelain scroll-weights, zhizhen, each in the form of a standing phoenix bird beside an aubergine rockwork grotto and a high-relief flowering plant unglazed in the biscuit with an elaborate green leaf, the birds with detailed relief hairwork to their necks and inside feather work to their wings, all on a green and clear-glazed ground on the rectangular base, the underside revealing muslin marks from the firing.

4 ¾ inches, 12.1 cm long; 4 ¼ inches, 10.8 cm high.

Kangxi, 1662-1722.

Pair of Chinese imperial porcelain yellow ground bat bowls, wan, thinly potted of steeply rounded form on tall, gently splayed foot rims, each incised on the exterior with twelve iron-red bats in flight, heightened in white enamel, each suspending from its mouth a pale green speckled double-gourd tied with a blue enamel ribbon, amongst dense ruyi-head clouds, between bands of upright ruyi-head terminal petals at the foot and beneath a ruyi-head band and single incised green line at the rim, the interior glazed yellow.

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

5 ⅞ inches, 15 cm diameter.