Asian Art at Marchant

Chinese porcelain fencai, famille rose jardinière of circular deep form with flat everted rim, painted on the exterior in a continuous scene with Zhong Kui, the Demon Queller, riding a piebald horse beside his attendant carrying a chest and wrapped qin, while accompanying his sister, Mei’er, to her wedding, she is seated and being pushed in a wheeled sedan chair, beneath overhanging willow and beside rockwork, beneath the moon and clouds, the base unglazed with an ink three-character mark.

9 ¼ inches, 23.5 cm diameter; 6 ¾ inches, 17.2 cm high.

Yongzheng period, 1723-1735.

Chinese imperial porcelain famille verte, wucai saucer dish thinly potted with upright rim, painted with a standing lady with one arm tucked into her elegant ruyi-cloud patterned robes, beside a table with censer, bowl, books and a vase with two peacock feathers, with an iron-red openwork stool at her side.

6 inches, 15.2 cm diameter.

The base with a six-character mark of Kangxi within a double ring in underglaze blue and of the period, 1662-1722.

Fitted box.

Chinese porcelain famille verte saucer dish with gently flared rim, painted in the centre with the bearded equestrian warrior Zhang Fei of dark complexion holding a spear while riding a black enamelled horse beside his bannerman, surrounded by four other equestrian warriors including the confronting Zhang He with a standing general behind rockwork and the General Wei Yan in an encampment in the distance indicated by halberds and spears, all amongst rockwork and plants with an iron-red cloudbank dividing the distance, the underside with a channel foot rim. The base with a six-character mark of Chenghua within a double ring in underglaze blue.

13 ¼ inches, 33.7 cm diameter.

Kangxi, circa 1670.