Asian Art at Marchant

Chinese porcelain conical bowl of brinjal type, carved on the exterior with three branches of camellia, the branches brown, the leaves green, the flower heads white, all on a rich even yellow ground, the interior with a lingzhi, the base with a square mark within a double ring in underglaze blue.

Early Kangxi, circa 1680.

8 3/8 inches, 21.4 cm.

Chinese porcelain famille verte café au lait ground bowl and cover, painted on the bowl with a camellia branch and a flowering chrysanthemum branch divided by rockwork with a butterfly in flight, the galleried rim with a flower head border, the well of the interior with a further camellia, the cover similarly painted, the upright finial encircling a hare and moon mark within a double ring in underglaze blue also repeated on the base of the bowl.

6 1/8 inches, 15.5 cm diameter.

Kangxi, circa 1710.

Chinese porcelain famille verte, wucai brush pot painted with a continuous mountain river landscape scene with a standing scholar on a rocky promontory beside a naturally formed rockwork bridge beside a pine tree, beneath a flock of migrating birds and a gilt sun.

5 7/8 inches, 14.8 cm high; 4 3/4 inches, 12 cm diameter.

Kangxi, 1662-1722.