Asian Art at Marchant

Chinese imperial porcelain saucer dish painted on a yellow ground and incised with a green and aubergine five-clawed dragon encircling a flaming pearl amongst stylised clouds and flames, the underside with aubergine grapes and green leaves on a yellow ground extending to the base.

5 1/8 inches, 13 cm diameter.

The base with a six-character sealmark of Daoguang and of the period, 1821-1850.

Chinese large jade carving of a recumbent horse, ma, biting its hind leg, with wide eyes and gently protruding lip, pronounced spine and forelegs neatly tucked underneath, with detailed flowing hairwork to the mane and long tail.

The stone of yellowish celadon with naturalistic brown markings.

7 inches, 17.8 cm long; 3 ? inches, 8.6 cm deep; 4 ½ inches, 11.4 cm high.

Late Ming/early Qing dynasty, 17^th/18^th century.

Chinese porcelain famille verte vase of rouleau form, with high shoulder, cylindrical neck, and galleried rim, painted on the body in a continuous scene with ten beautiful ladies of the court, two seated at a table playing weiqi, while another lady rests her elbow at the corner of the table between two other standing ladies holding fans, the reverse with a lady seated at a painting table holding a brush with an inkstone, beside a censer, brushpot and stack of books with three other ladies looking on, a further table adorned with a large wrapped qin, gu-form vase with peacock feathers, another vase holding ornaments and a gilt tripod censer, all amongst black outlined rockwork and plants, the neck with a flowering camellia and chrysanthemum branch with buds and leaves beneath fretwork on the galleried rim. The underside with a square seal mark in a square within a double ring in underglaze blue.

16 7/8 inches, 42.8 cm high.

Kangxi, circa 1690.