Asian Art at Marchant

Chinese imperial porcelain iron-red dragon bowl, wan, thinly potted with gently rising upright sides on a short foot rim, painted with two five-clawed iron-red enamel dragons each in pursuit of a flaming pearl amongst ruyi-clouds and flames, the dragons’ eyes heightened in black enamel, the interior glazed white.

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

6 3/16 inches, 15.7 cm diameter.

Japanese porcelain pale celadon lavender glazed ribbed globular jar with rounded body and gently flared short neck, covered on the base and interior with an even pale celadon lavender Ru-type glaze thinning at the ribs, with brown rim and foot rim.

6 7/8 inches, 17.5 cm high.

Kawase Shinobu, 1989.

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

Pair of Chinese imperial porcelain lavender-glazed altar vessels and covers, dou, each modelled after an archaic bronze with moulded and carved archaic designs, the upright body with ribs and bands all on a splayed, ribbed foot, the cover with a design of scrolls, fretwork and two registers of stylised waves beneath a double-rope twist openwork finial, covered overall including the interior and underside in a luminous, rich and even lavender glaze, all the rims dressed in brown in veneration of the archaic prototype.

The interior of the cover and the underside of the base of each with a six-character sealmark of Qianlong and of the period, 1736-1795.

9 ¾ inches, 24.8 cm and 9 ⅞ inches, 25.1 cm high.