Asian Art at Marchant

Pair of Chinese porcelain famille verte ginger jars painted with birds in flight amongst flowering prunus branches and a cat looking up at a parrot on a perch above fencing.

Wood covers and stands.

Total height including covers and stands 28.7cm.

Kangxi, 1662-1722.

Chinese porcelain fencai, famille rose jardinière of circular deep form with flat everted rim, painted on the exterior in a continuous scene with Zhong Kui, the Demon Queller, riding a piebald horse beside his attendant carrying a chest and wrapped qin, while accompanying his sister, Mei’er, to her wedding, she is seated and being pushed in a wheeled sedan chair, beneath overhanging willow and beside rockwork, beneath the moon and clouds, the base unglazed with an ink three-character mark.
9 ¼ inches, 23.5 cm diameter; 6 ¾ inches, 17.2 cm high.
Yongzheng period, 1723-1735.

粉彩鍾馗嫁妹圖花盆　清雍正　唐紹儀舊藏

Chinese porcelain famille verte rouleau vase with high shoulder, cylindrical neck and galleried rim, painted on the body in a continuous scene with Xi Wang-mu, The Queen Mother of the West, descending from the Jasper Pool in the clouds with six of her attendants, one holding the giant peach of immortality, others with flute, cymbals, a qin and peacock feather fan, beside her a phoenix bird in flight, approaching the Emperor who wears yellow robes of dragon design, in his palace with generals, dignitaries and attendants amongst rockwork, wutong, banana plant and cranes all beneath a gilt sun, the shoulder with precious object reserves on a geometric ground, the neck with three medallions of Fuxing, seated holding a hu tablet beside a stack of books on a yellow fu-character, Shoulao, in a peach between a crane and scrolls on a green shou-character, and Luxing, seated between a deer and wine jar on an aubergine lu-character beneath the galleried rim with green keyfrets, the base glazed white.

18 ½ inches, 47 cm high.

Kangxi, circa 1715.

五彩西王母瑤池祝壽圖棒槌瓶　清康熙Morpurgo 家族舊藏