Asian Art at Marchant

Chinese imperial porcelain ruby ground famille rose enamelled vase, feng er ping, with light blue and dark blue enamelled outlined openwork phoenix handles, decorated on each side with the Eight Daoist Emblems, anbaxian on a rich and even ruby-red enamel ground above a lappet band with ruyi-head terminals and a leaf band on a gently splayed foot, all beneath a yellow ground band of ruyi-heads at the gilt rim, the interior and base lined with turquoise enamel.

The underside with a six-character sealmark of Qianlong in iron-red and of the period, 1736-1795. 12 ⅛ inches, 30.8 cm high.

Japanese ceramic black glazed stoneware tea bowl, chawan, of irregular naturalistic form with pressed side and unglazed areas in white slip and brown revealing the biscuit body, also covered on the interior with a rich, thick black glaze.

5 inches, 12.7 cm wide.

Kawase Shinobu, 1991.

Wood box, described as ‘black tea bowl’, signed and with artist’s seal, Shinobu, on the interior of the cover and the white cloth, with the seal, ten-sei.

Large Chinese famille verte biscuit porcelain sancai openwork fruit-form pyramid scroll weight, zhizhen, on a quatrefoil-lobed integral stand, with extensive fruit in green, yellow, aubergine and black glazes, amongst large vine leaves, all on an openwork rock form ground, the sancai splashed base with everted, green-glazed rim, the base unglazed.

8 inches, 20.3 cm high.

Early Kangxi, circa 1680.