Asian Art at Marchant

Japanese porcelain celadon lavender glazed bottle vase with rounded body, ribbed shoulder and upright galleried rim, covered overall on the base and interior with an even celadon lavender glaze thinning at the shoulder rib, the short foot rim brown.

9 ½ inches, 24.2 cm high.

Kawase Shinobu, 1982.

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

Pair of Chinese famille verte biscuit porcelain joss-stick holders, modelled as seated smiling boys, each with their left knee slightly raised and holding the joss-stick holder in their left hand, one wearing a yellow jacket and green pantaloons, the other wearing a green jacket and yellow pantaloons, the faces covered in a clear glaze, their hairwork heightened in deep aubergine.

3 inches, 7.7 cm high.

Kangxi, 1662-1722.

Chinese famille verte biscuit porcelain brush rest, bige, modelled as a curved five peak mountain moulded on the front with a fish rising among waves, the reverse with a qilin amongst plants, ingot and a coin, all on a green ground with aubergine and yellow glaze, the edge highlighted in yellow, the unglazed biscuit base slightly concave.

4 ¾ inches, 12.1 cm long.

Kangxi, 1662-1772.