Asian Art at Marchant

Chinese imperial porcelain blue and white vase of zun form, painted in the Ming style with heaped and piled effect, the body with two wide bands, the lower register with six different large flowerheads and twelve smaller flowerheads, all on continuous scrolling branches with their characteristic leaves, including peony, lily, rose, poppy, pink, camellia and mallow, beneath a band with six large lotus flowerheads on a continuous scrolling leafy branch with smaller flowerheads, all between six relief ribs above a wide band of swirling crested waves and a further rib above lappets on the splayed foot, all between two high relief taotie animal mask and ring handles, the neck with formal archaic style leaves, beneath a further crested wave band at the rim.

The base with a six-character sealmark of Qianlong in underglaze blue and of the period, 1736-1795.

9 ⅞ inches, 25.2 cm high.

Japanese porcelain kingfisher celadon glazed hare’s fur tea bowl, chawan, covered overall on the base and interior with a finely streaked hare’s fur glaze pooling in the well, the glaze thinning at the brown rim and above the short foot rim.

5 3/8 inches, 13.6 cm diameter.

Kawase Shinobu, 2013.

Wood box, described as ‘kingfisher celadon tea bowl’, signed and with artist’s seal, Shinobu, on the interior of the cover and the white silk cloth, with the seal, shin-en.

Japanese porcelain celadon lavender glazed ribbed vase of Ru-type with a ribbed body and bamboo-form neck and upright rim, covered overall on the base and interior with an even celadon lavender glaze thinning at the rim and ribs, the foot brown.

14 1/4 inches, 36.3 cm high.

Kawase Shinobu, 1985.

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