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Asian Art at Marchant
Marchant was founded in 1925 by Samuel Sydney 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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Kangxi Biscuit and Pottery: A Private French Collection
23rd October – 3rd November 2023. 40-piece exhibition of Kangxi and 17th century wares from one private collection.
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Chinese Ceramics From Tang to Song
Chinese Ceramics Tang to Song coincides with the 25th anniversary of Asian Art in London. The exhibition has been carefully curated and includes 43 pieces with excellent provenance, many of which are the finest examples of their type that the gallery has ever handled in almost 100 years of business.
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Kawase Shinobu - Master of Celadon, a retrospective
The exhibition features 52 pieces by the ‘Master of Celadon’, Kawase Shinobu. 20th June - 15th July 2022.
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Famille Verte from Private Collections
18 piece exhibition of Chinese famille verte porcelain, Kangxi period. 28th October - 12th November 2021.
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Take a journey through Marchant's history. With over 95 years’ experience in the art world, from historic company moments, to notable events in the art world and lots more.
Timeline & HistoryPorcelain & Works of Art
15. M5305
£3,200Chinese famille verte biscuit porcelain joss-stick holder or water-dropper in the form of a standing boy holding a lingzhi branch to his right shoulder dressed in a green jacket and yellow skirt, his hair heightened in aubergine with clear glaze head, chest, arms and feet, all on a raised biscuit lotus-form stand.
5 ¾ inches, 14.6 cm high.
Kangxi, 1662-1722.
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.
R9178
£28,000Chinese porcelain famille verte green ground bottle vase painted with yellow arrow vases on pedestal tables between pendant brocade balls and tassels tied with ribbons, the neck with flowering branches of prunus, all on a clear even pale green ground, divided by an iron-red lotus flower head band and beneath lotus petals and scrolls at the slightly flared lip, the base glazed white.
11 ¼ inches, 28.5 cm high.
Kangxi, circa 1700.