Asian Art at Marchant

Chinese imperial porcelain doucai and famille rose enamelled conical floral medallion bowl, wan, painted on the exterior with four blossoming flower medallions of peony, lotus, chrysanthemum and prunus, representing the four seasons, the branches and leaves forming the roundel, all between stylised green-glazed branches with buds and lotus petals, beneath two underglaze blue lines at the rim repeated on the foot. The well of the interior with a double butterfly medallion and a prunus flower spray, circled by two pairs of 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.

8 ¾ inches, 32.2 cm diameter.

Pair of Chinese famille verte biscuit porcelain large models of seated Buddhist lions on openwork rectangular stands, the male with a reticulated ball of cash-pattern simulating a brocade ball under his front left raised paw, the female with a cub climbing up her front raised right paw, each covered on the body in a translucent pale green glaze with relief hair work to the mane and spine heightened in dark green and blue enamel, their faces in pale yellow with wang-characters on their foreheads, the upright tails with aubergine glaze, the stands with peony, chrysanthemum, magnolia, camellia, prunus, lotus and pinks on a speckled green ground, each with two butterflies. The flat underside unglazed with muslin effect.
14 inches, 35.7 cm high.
Early Kangxi, circa 1680.

Japanese porcelain celadon lavender crackle glazed vase with ovoid body, ribbed sloping shoulder, flared tall foot and everted lipped rim, covered overall on the base and interior with an even crackled glaze thinning at the edges, all on a short brown biscuit foot rim.

9 3/8 inches, 23.8 cm high.

Kawase Shinobu, 1982.

Wood box, described as ‘celadon jar’, signed and with artist’s seal, Shinobu, on the interior of the cover and the orange cloth.