Asian Art at Marchant

A large and impressive Chinese porcelain famille rose-verte charger, painted with a scene from the “Dream of the Red Chamber” with Lin Daiyu being introduced to her new tutor Jia Yucun by her father Lin Ruhai, within an elaborately decorated pavilion with draped curtains and tables with various ornaments and flowers, the foreground set with pierced garden rocks and flowering shrubs all beneath a prunus tree amongst iron-red, gilt, yellow and blue clouds, all within a gilt and iron-iron floral and diaper border amongst four leaf-shaped panels depicting elegant reclining ladies, the underside glazed white.

Yongzheng, 1723-1735.

18 ¾ inches, 47.5cm diameter.

Chinese imperial porcelain blue-glazed altar vessel and cover, dou, modelled after an archaic bronze with moulded and carved archaic designs, the upright body with ribs and bands all on a splayed, ribbed foot, the cover with a design of scrolls, fretwork and registers of stylised waves beneath a double-rope twist openwork finial, covered overall including the interior and underside in a deep and even blue glaze.

27.5 cm high.

The interior of the cover and the underside with six-character sealmarks of Qianlong and of the period, 1736-1795.

Japanese porcelain kingfisher celadon glazed hare’s fur tea bowl, chawan, covered overall on the base and interior with a finely streaked hare’s fur glaze pooling in the well, the glaze thinning at the brown rim and above the short foot rim.

5 3/8 inches, 13.6 cm diameter.

Kawase Shinobu, 2013.

Wood box, described as ‘kingfisher celadon tea bowl’, signed and with artist’s seal, Shinobu, on the interior of the cover and the white silk cloth, with the seal, shin-en.