Asian Art at Marchant

Chinese famille verte, sancai, biscuit porcelain water-dropper in the form of a fish leaping from a crested wave, the fish predominantly in an aubergine glaze, its tail in yellow, the waves and handle in a green glaze, the flat biscuit base unglazed.

3 ¼ inches, 8.3 cm long.

Kangxi, 1662-1722.

Chinese imperial porcelain doucai dragon saucer dish, pan, painted in the centre with a five-clawed dragon with open mouth and detailed scales in pursuit of a large iron-red flaming pearl, amongst stylised flames and ruyi-clouds all within two underglaze blue lines, the cavetto painted with five large ruyi-clouds in iron-red, aubergine, green and yellow enamels outlined in underglaze blue within two further underglaze blue lines beneath the rim. The underside with a wide band of crested foaming waves beneath clouds, all within 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.

7 ⅞ inches, 20 cm diameter.

Japanese porcelain pale celadon lavender glazed pinched ‘lotus’ flower vase of slender beaker form, with double pinched foliate rim and flared base, covered overall on the base and interior in an even pale celadon lavender glaze, slightly thinning at the rim, the flat unglazed foot rim revealing the biscuit body.

14 3/8 inches, 36.5 cm high.

Kawase Shinobu, 2015.

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, rimka-rimpa.