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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11. M5189
£7,500Japanese porcelain large celadon lavender glazed flower-shaped shallow dish with six large petals gently everted at the rim, with slightly concave well, covered overall and on the base with an even celadon lavender Ru-type glaze thinning at the rim, the flat foot rim brown, the base with a spur mark.
13 7/8 inches, 35.3 cm diameter.
Kawase Shinobu, 1983.
Wood box, described as ‘large celadon flower-shaped dish’, signed and with artist’s seal, Shinobu, on the interior of the cover and the orange cloth.
8 - M5279
Chinese imperial porcelain famille verte birthday dish, pan, with flat everted lipped rim, painted in the centre with Lady Magu standing holding a scroll looking back at her attendant with a large peach, beside a tethered mythical deer drawing a wheeled square jardinière supporting a fruiting lingzhi group, encircled by twenty iron-red flowerheads on a hexagonal diaper ground between four-character medallions, wan shou wu jiang, “endless longevity”.
The base with a six-character mark of Kangxi within a double ring in underglaze blue and of the period, 1662-1722.
9 ⅞ inches, 25.2 cm diameter.
22. M5325
£4,200Chinese famille verte, sancai, biscuit porcelain water-dropper in the form of a fish leaping from a crested wave, the fish predominantly in an aubergine glaze, its tail in yellow, the waves and handle in a green glaze, the flat biscuit base unglazed.
3 ¼ inches, 8.3 cm long.
Kangxi, 1662-1722.
