Asian Art at Marchant

A very fine and rare pair of Chinese imperial porcelain blue and white moonflasks, bian hu, each with ruyi-head terminal handles, flared rim and everted foot, painted on each side with peach-shaped relief panels of five large fruiting peaches on a singular leafy branch between a pair of bats in flight encircled by scrolling branches of lotus and camellia within underglaze blue double lines, the flat sides with a continuous scrolling branch of fruiting lingzhi between pairs of double lines, the neck painted with a band of lotus beneath* ruyi*-heads and a floral band with scrolling leafy branches at the rim, the foot with a continuous band of leaves and branches.

Each base with a six-character sealmark of Qianlong in underglaze blue and of the period, 1736-1795.

9 ½ inches, 24.2 cm and 9 9/16 inches, 24.3 cm high.

Chinese imperial porcelain yellow-glazed vase with ovoid body and short, flared neck, covered overall in a rich imperial yellow glaze running to the interior of the mouth and to the base.
9 1/4 inches, 23.5 cm high.

The base incised with a six-character mark of Daoguang within a double square and of the period, 1821-1850.