Asian Art at Marchant

Chinese imperial porcelain doucai and famille rose enamelled conical floral medallion bowl, wan, painted on the exterior with four blossoming flower medallions of peony, lotus, chrysanthemum and prunus, representing the four seasons, the branches and leaves forming the roundel, all between stylised green-glazed branches with buds and lotus petals, beneath two underglaze blue lines at the rim repeated on the foot. The well of the interior with a double butterfly medallion and a prunus flower spray, circled by two pairs of underglaze blue double lines.

The base with a six-character mark of Yongzheng within a double ring in underglaze blue and of the period, 1723-1735.

8 ¾ inches, 32.2 cm diameter.

Japanese porcelain celadon lavender glazed ovoid flower vase with rounded melon form body and tall thin gently flared neck on a short everted foot, covered overall on the base and interior in an even celadon lavender Ru-type glaze thinning at the rim, the foot rim brown.

10 7/8 inches, 27.7 cm high.

Kawase Shinobu, 1989.

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

Japanese porcelain pale celadon glazed beaker shaped flower vase of slender form, the flared rim modelled as five petals, covered overall on the base and interior with an even pale celadon glaze, the biscuit foot rim unglazed.

8 7/8 inches, 22.5 cm high.

Kawase Shinobu, 1991.

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