Asian Art at Marchant

Japanese porcelain celadon lavender glazed ovoid flower vase with rounded melon form body and tall thin gently flared neck on a short everted foot, covered overall on the base and interior in an even celadon lavender Ru-type glaze thinning at the rim, the foot rim brown.

10 7/8 inches, 27.7 cm high.

Kawase Shinobu, 1989.

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, gyoku-i-syou.

A Chinese porcelain imperial blue and white deep bowl of yu form, on a tall footrim painted on the exterior with a dense continuous lotus pond, with leaves, flowers, buds and arrowheads rising from the water, the clever painting in different shades of blue, the foot with ruyi-head scrolls, the interior similarly painted with lotus flowers and leaves amongst crested waves encircling a blue ground crested wave medallion, all beneath underglaze blue double lines at the rim.

The underside with six-character mark of Jiajing within a double ring in underglaze blue and of the period, 1522-1566.

5 1/8 inches, 13 cm diameter.

Chinese imperial porcelain lemon-yellow ground underglaze blue decorated nine peach dish, pan, of slightly conical form with gently flared rim, painted in the centre with two leafy branches bearing nine peaches in early Ming style with heaped and piled effect, all within two double lines in underglaze blue. The underside painted with continuous scrolling branches of entwined morning glory with nine flowerheads amongst large leaves and buds, within double lines in underglaze blue with a further double line on the foot rim.

The base with a six-character sealmark of Qianlong in underglaze blue on white reserved on a lemon-yellow ground and of the period, 1736-1795.

10 7/16 inches, 26.5 cm diameter.