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.

Chinese imperial porcelain white-glazed waterpot of beehive form, taibaizun, with gently flared lipped rim, moulded and carved with three relief archaic style dragon and phoenix medallions, covered overall in an even sweet-white glaze. The base with a six-character mark of Kangxi in underglaze blue and of the period, 1662-1722.

5 ⅛ inches, 12.9 cm diameter of base.

Japanese porcelain pale celadon lavender glazed ribbed globular jar with rounded body and gently flared short neck, covered on the base and interior with an even pale celadon lavender Ru-type glaze thinning at the ribs, with brown rim and foot rim.

6 7/8 inches, 17.5 cm high.

Kawase Shinobu, 1989.

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