Asian Art at Marchant

Japanese porcelain celadon lavender glazed ribbed vase of Ru-type with a ribbed body and bamboo-form neck and upright rim, covered overall on the base and interior with an even celadon lavender glaze thinning at the rim and ribs, the foot brown.

14 1/4 inches, 36.3 cm high.

Kawase Shinobu, 1985.

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

Chinese imperial porcelain famille verte birthday dish, pan, with flat everted lipped rim, painted in the centre with Lady Magu standing holding a scroll looking back at her attendant with a large peach, beside a tethered mythical deer drawing a wheeled square jardinière supporting a fruiting lingzhi group, encircled by twenty iron-red flowerheads on a hexagonal diaper ground between four-character medallions, wan shou wu jiang, “endless longevity”.

The base with a six-character mark of Kangxi within a double ring in underglaze blue and of the period, 1662-1722.

9 ⅞ inches, 25.2 cm diameter.

Pair of Chinese imperial porcelain lavender-glazed altar vessels and covers, dou, each modelled after an archaic bronze with moulded and carved archaic designs, the upright body with ribs and bands all on a splayed, ribbed foot, the cover with a design of scrolls, fretwork and two registers of stylised waves beneath a double-rope twist openwork finial, covered overall including the interior and underside in a luminous, rich and even lavender glaze, all the rims dressed in brown in veneration of the archaic prototype.

The interior of the cover and the underside of the base of each with a six-character sealmark of Qianlong and of the period, 1736-1795.

9 ¾ inches, 24.8 cm and 9 ⅞ inches, 25.1 cm high.