Asian Art at Marchant

Chinese imperial porcelain blue and white bottle vase, shang ping, painted in the Ming style with heaped and piled effect, with globular rounded body and four wide relief ribs, tall cylindrical flared neck and slightly splayed foot, painted on the body with six different large flowerheads on a continuous scrolling branch beneath six smaller flowerheads each with its characteristic leaves, including lotus, peony, chrysanthemum and camellia, above a wide band of blue wash ground lappets and beneath bands of ruyi-heads and different flowers on a scrolling branch at the shoulder, the neck with tall leaves above a keyfret band, beneath a further ruyi-head band with a crested wave band beneath the rim, the splayed foot with a scrolling branch.

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

14 ⅞ inches, 37.8 cm high.

Chinese porcelain famille verte biscuit teapot and cover in the form of bamboo branches in yellow, aubergine, lime green and sea green with birds and branches including camellia, aster, prunus, bamboo, lingzhi and fruit, between naturalistic bamboo handle and spout, the yellow ground flower-shape drop-in cover with bamboo knop and bamboo sprays.

3 5/8 inches, 9.2 cm high.

Kangxi, 1662-1722.

Japanese porcelain celadon lavender glazed fluted tea bowl, chawan, with pressed side, covered overall on the base and interior with an even pale celadon lavender Ru-type glaze thinning at the ribs, the foot and rim brown.

5 ½ inches, 14 cm across; 3 1/8 inches, 7.9 cm high.

Kawase Shinobu, 2002.

Wood box, described as ‘celadon tea bowl’, signed and with artist’s seal, Shinobu, on the interior of the cover and the white silk cloth, with the seal, mon-koh-sei-sei-ari.