Asian Art at Marchant

Japanese porcelain large celadon lavender glazed melon-form vase, the naturalistic five-lobed body with everted foot and short lipped brown rim, covered overall in an even celadon lavender Ru-type glaze, the brown foot rim revealing the body.

10 inches, 25.3 cm high.

Kawase Shinobu, 2002.

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

Chinese imperial porcelain large dish, brightly painted in famille rose, fencai enamels with bajixiang, the eight auspicious emblems, each ribbon tied and amongst eight different flowering branches in pink, blue, light blue, turquoise green, iron red, gilt, yellow, white and lime green enamels encircling a stylised central flowerhead with interlinked other flowers, all within a double gilt border, the rim with a wide band of pink ruyi-heads on a lemon yellow ground, the underside with three different flower sprays each on a leafy branch with other flowers and leaves.

13 ½ inches, 34.2 cm diameter.

The base with a six-character mark of Guangxu in iron red and of the period, 1875-1908.

Pair of Chinese imperial porcelain famille rose enamelled conical flower-form bowls and covers, gai wan, with six petals, painted with pairs of sky-blue and turquoise enamelled five-clawed dragons with open mouths in pursuit of yellow and iron-red flaming pearls amongst ruyi-clouds and flames above crested and foaming waves, repeated on the rims of the covers.

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

The bowls 7 ¾ inches, 19.7 cm diameter, the covers 8 inches, 20.3 cm diameter.