Asian Art at Marchant

Japanese porcelain celadon lavender glazed ribbed vase of Ru-type with ribbed body, bamboo-form neck and upright rim, covered overall on the base and interior with an even celadon lavender crackled glaze thinning at the narrow ribs, the foot brown.

12 inches, 30.5 cm high.

Kawase Shinobu, 1982.

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

A Chinese porcelain famille verte, wucai, brush pot, bitong, painted with three panels of Fuxing, the god of happiness, standing on a rocky promontory, holding a scroll and looking up at an iron-red bat in flight, beside overhanging rockwork; Luxing, the god of wealth, standing and holding up a gilt hu-tablet beside fencing and rockwork and beneath cloud scrolls and the sun; Kuixing, the god of examinations, standing on one leg on the head of a dragon fish emerging from crested waves while holding a brush in one hand and a bushel-measure in the other, his scantly clad torso with a large green ribbon and wearing gilt rings on his ankles, beside a small stack of books, all on an elaborate seed green ground with daisies, lotus, morning glory, prunus, hibiscus, tree peony and bamboo sprays above four clusters of ripe peaches, the foot, rim and interior glazed white, the base with unglazed wide band and recessed glazed centre.

5 5/8 inches, 14.4 cm high; 4 5/8 inches, 10.8 cm diameter.

Kangxi, circa 1700.

Japanese porcelain celadon lavender glazed ‘penguin’ vase of baluster form with double-pinched rim and short splayed foot, covered overall on the underside and interior with an even celadon lavender Ru-type glaze, the gently everted and pinched rim with brown edge, all on a brown foot rim revealing the body.

9 3/8 inches, 23.8 cm high.

Kawase Shinobu, 1996.

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