Asian Art at Marchant

Chinese porcelain famille verte, wucai large dish with flat everted rim, painted in the centre with three semi-clad women fighting with equestrian warriors with equestrian generals in the foreground and a general and minister watching over the battle scene with a flag bearer, the flag with two characters, san jun, in gilt, all amongst rockwork encircled by six river landscape reserves on a diaper ground, the underside with an artemisia leaf within a double ring in underglaze blue.

14 5/8 inches, 37.1 cm diameter.

Kangxi, 1662-1722.

Chinese imperial porcelain yellow ground saucer dish incised in the centre and painted with a green and aubergine five-clawed dragon in pursuit of a flaming pearl amongst stylised flames, within a double aubergine ring, the underside decorated with grapes and leaves also on a yellow ground extending to the base.

5 1/4 inches, 13.3 cm diameter.

The base with a six-character mark of Qianlong within a double ring and of the period, 1736-1795.

Chinese jade recumbent crane, he, with its head turned back holding in its long-pointed beak a branch of two fruiting peaches, its folded wings and curved tail with detailed feather work, the legs and feet neatly folded under the body.

The stone yellow and black with brown mottled markings.

3 ¾ inches, 8.3 cm long.

Ming dynasty, 16^th/17^th century.