Asian Art at Marchant
Marchant was founded in 1925 by Samuel Sidney Marchant (1897-1975). Our specialties are Imperial Chinese Ming and Qing porcelains, jades, cloisonné, pottery and works of art. Emphasis is placed on rarity, quality, condition and provenance.
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18 - SMBM3
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.
28 - M5538
Pair of Chinese imperial porcelain large moulded celadon-glazed bowls, wan, of deep form with upright sides and straight footrims, each moulded on the exterior with six peony blooms on their characteristic leafy branches beneath an archaic scrolling band at the rim and above a keyfret band at the foot, the interior incised overall with a central peony flowerhead encircled by six further blooms on a continuous scrolling branch with leaves beneath a keyfret band at the rim, the rims glazed white, covered overall in a luminous even pale celadon glaze.
Each base with a six-character sealmark of Qianlong in underglaze blue and of the period, 1736-1795.
10 ½ inches, 26.7 cm diameter.
M5541
£38,500A Chinese porcelain famille verte ewer and cover, decorated on either side with a descending dragon grasping the flaming pearl above a band of waves and rockwork, the tall, slender neck flanked by a handle and spout decorated with two confronting dragons which meet at the join, the mouth and foot decorated with scrolling bands, the cover with flames surmounted by a finial with an iron-red flower, the base glazed white.
Shunzhi/Kangxi, circa 1650-1670.
11 inches, 28cm high.
