Asian Art at Marchant

Chinese famille verte large biscuit porcelain seated figure of an empress, wearing elaborately decorated robes with shou characters amongst flowering lotus on scrolling branches of leaves, each character supported as a bloom on an even, bright yellow glaze, her hands clasped under a ceremonial cloth with a central phoenix bird representing the empress and supporting a fruiting peach group with leaves, her moulded neck collar in relief with aubergine leaves and her elaborate head dress with high relief birds.

11 ½ inches, 29.2 cm high.

Early Kangxi, circa 1680.

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.

Chinese imperial porcelain green dragon dish, pan, with gently flared rim, the design outlined in underglaze blue, painted in the centre with a five-clawed dragon in green glaze, in pursuit of a flaming pearl amongst stylised flames and ruyi-clouds within a double line, encircled by two further similar dragons, the underside similarly decorated, with the dragons above a lappet band.

The base with a six-character mark of Kangxi within a double ring in underglaze blue and of the period, 1662-1722.

9 ¾ inches, 24.7 cm diameter.