Asian Art at Marchant

Chinese porcelain ko-akai, wucai, dish of flower form, with foliate rim, painted with a scholar and his attendant crossing  a bridge in a river landscape scene, the scholar carrying a staff while the attendant carries a wrapped qin, all beneath iron-red clouds and the sun with an overhanging flowering tree, heightened in green, yellow, aubergine and iron-red enamels with underglaze blue, all beneath a brown-dressed rim.

The base with a four-character mark fu tian xia taiping, ‘happiness and universal peace’, within a double square and a single ring in underglaze blue, the base also with chatter marks within the unglazed foot.

21cm diameter

Tianqi to Chongzhen, Circa 1629

Japanese porcelain celadon lavender crackle glazed octagonal flower bowl of deep form with gently everted foliate rim, covered overall on the base and interior with an even celadon lavender crackled glaze thinning at the rim, the short foot rim brown revealing the body.

10 ¾ inches, 27.2 cm diameter.

Kawase Shinobu, 1976.

Wood box, signed and with artist’s seal, Shinobu, on the interior of the cover and the orange cloth.

Japanese porcelain pale celadon glazed pinched ‘lotus’ flower vase of slender beaker form, with double pinched foliate rim, covered overall on the base and interior in an even pale celadon glaze, slightly thinning at the rim, the flat unglazed foot rim revealing the white biscuit body.

11 5/8 inches, 29.5 cm high.

Kawase Shinobu, 1990.

Wood box, described as ‘celadon flower vase’, signed and with artist’s seal, Shinobu, on the interior of the cover.