Asian Art at Marchant

Japanese porcelain pale celadon glazed pinched ‘lotus’ flower-shaped beaker vase, with tall slender body, gently splayed foot and wide pinched flower rim, covered overall on the base and interior in an even pale celadon glaze thinning at the rim and edge of the foot rim, the flat foot unglazed revealing the biscuit body.

13 inches, 33.1 cm high.

Kawase Shinobu, 1985.

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

Japanese porcelain pale celadon glazed pinched ‘lotus’ flower vase of slender beaker form, with double pinched foliate rim, covered overall on the base and interior in an even pale celadon glaze, slightly thinning at the rim, the flat unglazed foot rim revealing the white biscuit body.

11 5/8 inches, 29.5 cm high.

Kawase Shinobu, 1990.

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

A Chinese porcelain famille verte large fluted flower-form dish with foliate rim, painted in the centre with a battle scene of three equestrians, bannermen and a swordsman in a landscape with rockwork, encircled by six wide panels, two with mythological animals, two with ‘Hundred Antiques’ and two with flowers, between baluster-form divides. The underside with a large artemisia leaf mark within a double ring in underglaze blue.

14 ⅝ inches, 37.2 cm diameter.

Kangxi, 1662-1722.