Asian Art at Marchant

Chinese imperial porcelain yellow-glazed two-handled wine cup, erbei, thinly potted and incised on each side with a continuous anhua band of archaic style dragons facing each other with open mouths, between a pearl, all on a short foot rim and covered overall in an even pale-yellow glaze, pooling on the foot rim between two upright loop handles with curled ends, the interior glazed white.

The base with a six-character mark of Kangxi within a double ring in underglaze blue and of the period, 1662-1722.

2 11/16 inches, 6.9 cm diameter handle to handle, 1 9/16 inches, 4 cm high.

Pair of Chinese porcelain famille verte saucer dishes, each with upright sides and painted with hanging baskets of flowers, one basket of facetted form with fishermen in a river landscape while the basket contains pine branches, bamboo and prunus, sanyou, The Three Friends of Winter, the other facetted basket with a faux-marbled design and displaying lotus flowers, leaves, pods, arrowheads and other plants, the undersides glazed white.

Kangxi, 1662-1722

8 1/8 inches, 20.6cm diameter.

A very fine and rare pair of Chinese imperial porcelain blue and white moonflasks, bian hu, each with ruyi-head terminal handles, flared rim and everted foot, painted on each side with peach-shaped relief panels of five large fruiting peaches on a singular leafy branch between a pair of bats in flight encircled by scrolling branches of lotus and camellia within underglaze blue double lines, the flat sides with a continuous scrolling branch of fruiting lingzhi between pairs of double lines, the neck painted with a band of lotus beneath* ruyi*-heads and a floral band with scrolling leafy branches at the rim, the foot with a continuous band of leaves and branches.

Each base with a six-character sealmark of Qianlong in underglaze blue and of the period, 1736-1795.

9 ½ inches, 24.2 cm and 9 9/16 inches, 24.3 cm high.