Asian Art at Marchant

Japanese ceramic white crackle glazed stoneware tea bowl, chawan, of irregular naturalistic form with pressed side and unglazed areas revealing the biscuit body, covered on the interior with a rich white crackled glaze slightly thinning at the rim.

5 inches, 12.7 cm wide.

Kawase Shinobu, 1991.

Wood box, described as ‘white tea bowl’, signed and with artist’s seal, Shinobu, on the interior of the cover and the white cloth, with the seal, ten-sei.

A Chinese famille verte, sancai biscuit model of a reclining figure of Li Bai leaning on his wine jar, his yellow dappled robes covering his hands under his sleeves and chin with his crossed over legs revealing his green dappled pantaloons, the wine jar also covered in a green glaze with dark glaze to his beard, hair, eyes, eyebrows and shoes, the unglazed flat base revealing the biscuit body.

6 ½ inches, 16.5 cm long.

Kangxi, circa 1680.

Chinese porcelain famille verte, wucai brush pot, bitong, painted with two panels, with two elegant ladies standing beside a pair of chickens, next to a table and stools in a fenced landscape scene, with a rockwork table supporting a censer and cup with two wine jars on the grass, beside insects beneath the red sun, the reverse with a mountainous river landscape scene, with a viewing pavilion and fishing boat beneath the yellow sun, the base with a wide unglazed biscuit band encircling a recessed glazed circle.

5 1/4 inches, 13.4 cm high; 4 inches, 10.2 cm diameter.

Kangxi, 1662-1722.

Fitted box.

Wood stand.