Asian Art at Marchant

Japanese ceramic unglazed, charcoal-fired stoneware vessel and cover, painted on most of the body with cream, beige and grey slip falling short of the base and revealing the biscuit body, the drop-in cover surmounted by a bud-form finial.

7 1/2 inches, 19 cm high.

Kawase Shinobu, 1994.

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

A very fine Chinese porcelain famille verte rouleau vase with high shoulder, cylindrical neck and galleried rim, painted on the body in a continuous scene with Xi Wangmu, The Queen Mother of the West, descending from the Jasper Pool in the clouds with six of her attendants, one holding the giant peach of immortality, others with flute, cymbals, a qin and peacock-feather fan, beside her a phoenix bird in flight, approaching the Emperor who wears yellow robes of dragon design, in his palace with generals, dignitaries and attendants amongst rockwork, wutong, banana plant and cranes all beneath a gilt sun, the shoulder with precious object reserves on a geometric ground, the neck with three medallions of Fuxing, seated holding a hu tablet beside a stack of books on a yellow fu-character, Shoulao, in a peach between a crane and scrolls on a green* shou*-character, and Luxing, seated between a deer and wine jar on an aubergine lu-character beneath the galleried rim with green keyfrets, the base glazed white.

Kangxi, 1662-1722.

18 1/2 inches, 47 cm high.

Japanese porcelain celadon lavender glazed model of a crane, kakutei, with its tall raised neck looking up with upright curled tail, covered overall and on the interior with a celadon lavender glaze thinning at the comb, beak and tail tip, the flat foot rim brown.

14 inches, 35.5 cm high.

Kawase Shinobu, 1992.

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