Asian Art at Marchant

Chinese imperial porcelain blue-glazed altar vessel and cover, dou, modelled after an archaic bronze with moulded and carved archaic designs, the upright body with ribs and bands all on a splayed, ribbed foot, the cover with a design of scrolls, fretwork and registers of stylised waves beneath a double-rope twist openwork finial, covered overall including the interior and underside in a deep and even blue glaze.

27.5 cm high.

The interior of the cover and the underside with six-character sealmarks of Qianlong and of the period, 1736-1795.

Japanese porcelain large celadon lavender glazed flower-shaped shallow dish with six large petals gently everted at the rim, with slightly concave well, covered overall and on the base with an even celadon lavender Ru-type glaze thinning at the rim, the flat foot rim brown, the base with a spur mark.

13 7/8 inches, 35.3 cm diameter.

Kawase Shinobu, 1983.

Wood box, described as ‘large celadon flower-shaped dish’, 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 biscuit body.

10 ¾ inches, 27.3 cm high.

Kawase Shinobu, 1988.

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