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Asian Art at Marchant
Marchant was founded in 1925 by Samuel Sydney 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.



The Shop
Famille Verte from Private Collections
The Lobl Collection of Chinese Jades
Qing Porcelain From Three Private Collections
Take a journey through Marchant's history. With over 95 years’ experience in the art world, from historic company moments, to notable events in the art world and lots more.
Timeline & HistoryPorcelain & Works of Art

10. M5015
£15,000Chinese small jade carving of a crouching tiger, hu, with incised lines to the body, whiskers and long tail folded back on its body, with detailed claws and ears.
The stone white and brown with mottled markings.
2 inches, 5.1 cm long.
Ming dynasty, 16th/17th century or earlier.

10. R9857
Chinese porcelain famille verte, wucai baluster vase of tapered form, with a lady in a sedan chair amongst all her attendants with a warrior and scholar, meeting two kneeling soldiers, one holding a sword by the scabbard, the other holding a banner with a character, ling, ‘order’, with a castle wall in the distance, beneath the sun and clouds in a continuous landscape scene with pine, wutong and rockwork, the shoulder with bamboo reserves on a chrysanthemum flowerhead, leaf and green scroll ground, the gently flaring neck painted with a continuous mountain river landscape scene, with a fisherman beneath the sun, the base glazed white.
17 1/4 inches, 43.8 cm high.
Kangxi, 1662-1722.

S1654
£75,000Chinese famille verte biscuit porcelain 'piggyback' group modelled as a standing smiling young man wearing long yellow ground floral robes and the official badge of a first-grade civil mandarin beneath three button tied clasps carrying a younger boy on his back who wears an aubergine ground flower head jacket, the base unglazed.
8 7/8 inches, 22.6 cm high.
Early Kangxi, circa 1680.
Carved wood stand.
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FAMILLE VERTE FROM PRIVATE COLLECTIONS
28th October – 12th November 2021
2021 年10 月28 日 – 11 月12 日

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How to Collect Qing Porcelain: Top Tips from Legendary Dealer Richard Marchant (Sotheby’s July 2020)
This video shows Richard Marchant giving advice to collectors on how to collect Chinese porcelain and what criteria should be met. The video was produced by Sotheby's Hong Kong...