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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20. M5191
£6,850Japanese porcelain celadon lavender glazed ovoid flower vase with rounded melon form body and tall thin gently flared neck on a short everted foot, covered overall on the base and interior in an even celadon lavender Ru-type glaze thinning at the rim, the foot rim brown.
10 7/8 inches, 27.7 cm high.
Kawase Shinobu, 1989.
Wood box, described as ‘celadon flower vase’, signed and with artist’s seal, Shinobu, on the interior of the cover and the orange cloth, with the seal, gyoku-i-syou.
4 - M5388
A very fine and rare Chinese imperial porcelain white-glazed waterpot of beehive form, taibaizun, with gently flared lipped rim, moulded and carved with three relief archaic-style dragon and phoenix medallions, covered overall in an even sweet-white glaze.
The base with a six-character mark of Kangxi in underglaze blue and of the period, 1662-1722.
5 ⅛ inches, 12.9 cm diameter of base.
31. M5265
£4,850Japanese ceramic unglazed, charcoal-fired stoneware vessel and cover, painted on most of the body with cream and beige slip falling short of the base and revealing the biscuit body, the pinched and pressed in cover completing the natural form.
8 inches, 20.3 cm high.
Kawase Shinobu, 1994.
Wood box, signed and with artist’s seal, Shinobu, on the interior of the cover and the orange cloth.
