Asian Art at Marchant

Pair of Chinese imperial porcelain bamboo bowls, wan, of thinly potted deep form with upright sides and short foot, each painted in the reverse technique with white branches of bamboo on a rich and even coral-coloured ground, the interiors glazed white.

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

4 ⅝ inches, 11.8 cm diameter.

Japanese porcelain celadon lavender glazed wine jar and cover, shukaiko, of guan form with vertical ribbed body and six-petalled stylised lotus leaf cover, covered overall on the base, interior and underside of the cover in a celadon lavender Ru-type glaze thinning at the ribs, the rim, foot rim and underside cover rim brown.

8 1/8 inches, 20.6 cm diameter; 7 inches, 17.8 cm high.

Kawase Shinobu, 1989.

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

Japanese ceramic white crackle glazed stoneware tea bowl, chawan, of irregular naturalistic form with pressed side and unglazed areas revealing the biscuit body, covered on the interior with a rich white crackled glaze slightly thinning at the rim.

5 inches, 12.7 cm wide.

Kawase Shinobu, 1991.

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