Asian Art at Marchant

Chinese famille noire biscuit porcelain hexagonal openwork teapot and cover, the reticulated body modeled with six high-relief panels of the ‘Three Friends of Winter’, pine, prunus and bamboo, sanyou, above a moulded band of  iron red lotus petals, beneath a green ground flowerhead band at the shoulder, with ruyi-heads on cash and floral grounds in aubergine and yellow on a hexagonal faceted neck, the body with a rich black enamel ground between a fish form handle and a dragon headed hexagonal spout, the cover reticulated with a branch of flowering prunus with a blue enamel prunus finial.

6 3/8 inches, 16.2 cm high.

Early Kangxi, c. 1680.

Japanese porcelain celadon lavender glazed ovoid flower vase with rounded melon form body and tall thin gently flared neck on a short everted foot, covered overall on the base and interior in an even celadon lavender Ru-type glaze thinning at the rim and the rib, all on an unglazed brown biscuit foot rim.

7 5/8 inches, 19.3 cm high.

Kawase Shinobu, 1983.

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

Japanese ceramic unglazed, charcoal-fired stoneware vessel and cover, painted on most of the body with cream and beige slip falling short of the base and revealing the biscuit body, the pinched and pressed in cover completing the natural form.

8 inches, 20.3 cm high.

Kawase Shinobu, 1994.

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