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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Timeline & HistoryPorcelain & Works of Art
M5784/5
£23,500Pair of Chinese porcelain famille verte saucer dishes, each with upright sides and painted with hanging baskets of flowers, one basket of facetted form with fishermen in a river landscape while the basket contains pine branches, bamboo and prunus, sanyou, The Three Friends of Winter, the other facetted basket with a faux-marbled design and displaying lotus flowers, leaves, pods, arrowheads and other plants, the undersides glazed white.
Kangxi, 1662-1722
8 1/8 inches, 20.6cm diameter.
M4284/5
£22,000A pair of Chinese porcelain famille verte saucer dishes with openwork cash border, painted in the centre with two standing ladies beside a boy in a fenced garden scene with overhanging wutong branches.
21.1cm diameter.
Kangxi, 1662-1722.
R1363
£16,500Chinese famille noire biscuit porcelain hexagonal openwork teapot and cover, the reticulated body modeled with six high-relief panels of the ‘Three Friends of Winter’, pine, prunus and bamboo, sanyou, above a moulded band of iron red lotus petals, beneath a green ground flowerhead band at the shoulder, with ruyi-heads on cash and floral grounds in aubergine and yellow on a hexagonal faceted neck, the body with a rich black enamel ground between a fish form handle and a dragon headed hexagonal spout, the cover reticulated with a branch of flowering prunus with a blue enamel prunus finial.
6 3/8 inches, 16.2 cm high.
Early Kangxi, c. 1680.
