Asian Art at Marchant

Japanese porcelain celadon lavender crackle glazed bottle vase with tall cylindrical neck, rounded body, everted foot rim and slightly flaring lipped rim, covered overall on the base and interior in a celadon lavender crackled Ru-type glaze, the rim and unglazed biscuit foot rim brown.

11 ½ inches, 29.3 cm high.

Kawase Shinobu, 1983.

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 porcelain imperial green-enamelled dragon jar of ovoid form, decorated with two five-clawed dragons in pursuit of flaming pearls amongst ruyi-head clouds and flames beneath a wide band of the bajixiang on the shoulder and above a band of lappets at the foot, the cover decorated on the top surface with a five clawed dragon chasing the flaming pearl, the side of the cover with band of ruyi-heads. The base with six-character sealmark of Jiaqing in underglaze blue and of the period, 1796-1820.

8 1/2 inches, 21.5 cm high

Chinese porcelain famille verte, rouleau vase with high shoulder, cylindrical ribbed neck and galleried rim, painted on the body in a continuous scene with the Tang Dynasty General Guo Ziyi, celebrating his sixtieth birthday amongst his family, including eleven boys, young men, two young girls and other scholars, dignitaries and attendants with one boy seated at a table in an iron red chair pretending to paint in front of a crested wave screen and four other young men bowing at each other while standing on an elaborate floral rug, all in a curtained open terrace scene with fencing, rockwork, wutong and an iron-red cloud bank, the neck with a flowering peony branch amongst rockwork with large buds and leaves and two birds in flight.  The base glazed white with a double ring in underglaze blue.

18 1/8 inches, 46 cm high.

Kangxi, circa 1680.