Asian Art at Marchant

A pair of Chinese imperial porcelain famille rose enamelled fencai saucer dishes, each brightly painted with the bajixiang, ribbon-tied with flowering branches in green, blue, pink, turquoise, white, aubergine and iron-red enamels encircling a stylised central lotus flower head and interlinked flower heads in lime green enamel, all within gilt rings, the underside with branches of stylised lotus, peony and peach flowers, with a peach and bud on elaborate scrolls.

6 inches, 15.3 cm diameter.

The underside with an underglaze blue six character mark of Tongzhi and of the period, 1862-1874.

Chinese large jade carving of a recumbent horse, ma, biting its hind leg, with wide eyes and gently protruding lip, pronounced spine and forelegs neatly tucked underneath, with detailed flowing hairwork to the mane and long tail.

The stone of yellowish celadon with naturalistic brown markings.

7 inches, 17.8 cm long; 3 ? inches, 8.6 cm deep; 4 ½ inches, 11.4 cm high.

Late Ming/early Qing dynasty, 17^th/18^th century.

Chinese jade bowl, wan, in the form of a hibiscus flower with two registers of overlapping petals each incised with veins and relief edges, the interior with a further flowerhead with crossed hatch centre repeated on the underside with a petal shaped foot rim.

The stone translucent white with natural markings.

5 3/8 inches, 13.7 cm diameter.

Qianlong, circa 1760.