Asian Art at Marchant

Japanese ceramic black glazed stoneware tea bowl, chawan, of irregular naturalistic form with pressed side and unglazed areas in white slip and brown revealing the biscuit body, also covered on the interior with a rich, thick black glaze.

5 inches, 12.7 cm wide.

Kawase Shinobu, 1991.

Wood box, described as ‘black tea bowl’, signed and with artist’s seal, Shinobu, on the interior of the cover and the white cloth, with the seal, ten-sei.

Chinese imperial porcelain blue and white bottle vase, suantou kou ping, with pear-shaped body, everted lipped foot, garlic mouth and upright rim, painted on the body with twelve seasonal blooms borne on a continuous scrolling branch with characteristic leaves including peony, chrysanthemum, camellia, hibiscus and lotus, beneath a ruyi-head band and a blue washed prunus flower head band at the ribbed shoulder, the neck with lappets of branches and leaves beneath the garlic mouth painted with flowerheads and their characteristic leaves beneath a keyfret band at the upright rim. The foot painted with a crested wave and foam band beneath blue ground lappets, painted overall in the classic Ming style with heaped and piled effect.

The base with a six-character mark of Yongzheng within a double ring in underglaze blue and of the period, 1723-1735.

11 inches, 28 cm high.

A pair of Chinese porcelain famille verte saucer dishes with openwork cash border, painted in the centre with two standing ladies beside a boy in a fenced garden scene with overhanging wutong branches.

21.1cm diameter.

Kangxi, 1662-1722.