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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25 - M4743
Chinese imperial porcelain blue and white vase of zun form, painted in the Ming style with heaped and piled effect, the body with two wide bands, the lower register with six different large flowerheads and twelve smaller flowerheads, all on continuous scrolling branches with their characteristic leaves, including peony, lily, rose, poppy, pink, camellia and mallow, beneath a band with six large lotus flowerheads on a continuous scrolling leafy branch with smaller flowerheads, all between six relief ribs above a wide band of swirling crested waves and a further rib above lappets on the splayed foot, all between two high relief taotie animal mask and ring handles, the neck with formal archaic style leaves, beneath a further crested wave band at the rim.
The base with a six-character sealmark of Qianlong in underglaze blue and of the period, 1736-1795.
9 ⅞ inches, 25.2 cm high.
M4950
A Chinese imperial porcelain blue and white small saucer dish, painted in the centre in luminous vivid tones, with three scaled mythical animals including a qilin, a monkey headed qilin and an elephant headed animal, together with a tiger and a dragon emerging from rockwork beneath ruyi clouds, with a pine branch, other plants, rockwork and flowerheads, encircled with a continuous border of a lotus pound with pairs of geese, ducks, cranes and other birds amongst lotus flowers, leaves, arrow heads and aquatic leaves, the underside with six branches of pomegranate, hibiscus, persimmon, morning glory, peach and another flowering branch. Japanese wood box.
The base with a six character mark of Wanli within a double ring and of the period, 1573-1619.
6 3/8 inches, 16.2 cm diameter.
TL1
A Chinese porcelain blue and white imperial bowl, wan, painted with two five-clawed dragons divided by a large branch of lingzhi fungus supporting a ruyi-head shaped shou and fu characters, amongst stylised flames and clouds and above a band of overlapping petals all between double rings, painted in the well of the interior with a similar dragon medallion.
5 ¼ inches, 13.2 cm diameter.
The base with a six-character mark of Kangxi within a double ring and of the period, circa 1710.
