Asian Art at Marchant

Pair of Chinese imperial porcelain bamboo bowls, wan, of thinly potted deep form with upright sides and short foot, each painted in the reverse technique with white branches of bamboo on a rich and even coral-coloured ground, the interiors glazed white.

Each base with a six-character mark of Yongzheng within a double ring in underglaze blue and of the period, 1723-1735.

4 ⅝ inches, 11.8 cm diameter.

Japanese porcelain celadon lavender glazed cylindrical flower vase, mizusashi or bitong, with five petalled rim, the wide cylindrical body above two ribs at the foot and beneath a gently flared rim with the glaze thinning, covered overall on the base and the interior in an even celadon lavender Ru-type glaze, the biscuit foot rim brown.

6 ¾ inches, 17.1 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 and the orange cloth.

Chinese porcelain famille verte bottle vase with tall cylindrical neck and lipped rim, painted on the body with eight lappets, enclosing open-winged butterflies amongst prunus, peony, lotus, pinks, chrysanthemum and aster on a seed-green ground and four with large chrysanthemum flower heads which suspend different stylised lanterns enclosing a horse, bird and prunus, a sage and a bird and magnolia, all on geometric iron-red cross-hatch grounds, between further pendants of precious objects and lotus bud branches, the shoulder with bands of ruyi, keyfret, diaper and lotus petals, the neck with branches of lotus flowers beneath pendant tassels and jewels and a keyfret band at the rim, the base glazed white.

16 ½ inches, 41.9 cm high.

Kangxi, circa 1690.

Wood stand.