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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8. M4911
£7,500Japanese porcelain pale celadon lavender glazed flower-shaped shallow dish with eight petals, covered on the exterior and interior with an even pale celadon lavender glaze thinning at the rim, with brown flat foot rim and base.
12 3/16 inches, 31.5 cm diameter.
Kawase Shinobu, 1983.
Wood box, described as ‘celadon flower-shaped dish’, signed and with artist’s seal, Shinobu, on the interior of the cover.
M4978
£58,000Chinese imperial porcelain large saucer dish painted with five dragons, wu long, the centre with the forward facing gilt and iron-red five clawed dragon, its body encircling a flaming pearl between an ascending blue enamel dragon and a descending turquoise dragon, all amongst ruyi-clouds in rose, turquoise, blue and white enamels with stylized red flames and all reserved on a rich and even lemon-yellow ground, the underside with a pink dragon and a green dragon heightened in black enamel, all the dragons’ claws in white and on a similar ground between flaming pearls beneath the gilt rim.
14 inches, 35.5 cm diameter.
The base with a six character mark of Guangxu in iron-red and of the period, 1875 – 1908.
3. M5080
£6,000Japanese porcelain celadon lavender crackle glazed octagonal flower bowl of deep form with gently everted foliate rim, covered overall on the base and interior with an even celadon lavender crackled glaze thinning at the rim, the short foot rim brown revealing the body.
10 ¾ inches, 27.2 cm diameter.
Kawase Shinobu, 1976.
Wood box, signed and with artist’s seal, Shinobu, on the interior of the cover and the orange cloth.
