Asian Art at Marchant

Pair of Chinese porcelain famille verte, wucai biscuit table screens of rectangular form with chamfered corners, each with a figure standing on a riverbank in a mountainous river landscape scene with buildings and pine trees beneath a red sun, recessed within a yellow glazed border and surrounded by lotus flower reserves on a seed green ground, the reverse with bogu tu, ‘100 antiques’, books, censers, brush pots, vases of lotus flowers and peacock feathers, hanging lantern and a perch with a bird, within a recessed border surrounded by lotus flower reserves on a diaper ground.

7 inches, 17.9 cm high.
Kangxi, 1662-1722.

Wood stands.

A Chinese porcelain blue and white imperial bowl, wan, painted with two five-clawed dragons divided by a large branch of lingzhi fungus supporting a ruyi-head shaped shou and fu characters, amongst stylised flames and clouds and above a band of overlapping petals all between double rings, painted in the well of the interior with a similar dragon medallion.

5 ¼ inches, 13.2 cm diameter.

The base with a six-character mark of Kangxi within a double ring and of the period, circa 1710.

Chinese porcelain imperial green-enamelled dragon jar of ovoid form, decorated with two five-clawed dragons in pursuit of flaming pearls amongst ruyi-head clouds and flames beneath a wide band of the bajixiang on the shoulder and above a band of lappets at the foot, the cover decorated on the top surface with a five clawed dragon chasing the flaming pearl, the side of the cover with band of ruyi-heads. The base with six-character sealmark of Jiaqing in underglaze blue and of the period, 1796-1820.

8 1/2 inches, 21.5 cm high