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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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
R1382
"May Your Happiness Reach Up To The Tips of Your Eyebrows"
Chinese porcelain famille verte cylindrical brushpot, bitong, painted in a continuous scene with one magpie resting on a prunus branch and four others in flight, amongst angular rockwork and branches of plum blossom with sprays of red, green and blue, petal edges and stamens highlighted in gilt, the base with a circular recess and underglaze blue wan-character maker's mark.
15.4 cm high, 18.2 cm / 7 1/4 inches diameter.
Kangxi, 1662-1722.
R9952
£30,000Chinese imperial porcelain saucer dish painted on a yellow ground and incised with a green and aubergine five-clawed dragon encircling a flaming pearl amongst stylised clouds and flames, the underside with aubergine grapes and green leaves on a yellow ground extending to the base.
5 1/8 inches, 13 cm diameter.
The base with a six-character mark of Kangxi within a double ring and of the period, 1662-1722.
6. M5329
£24,500Pair of Chinese famille verte biscuit porcelain scroll-weights, zhizhen, each in the form of a standing phoenix bird beside an aubergine rockwork grotto and a high-relief flowering plant unglazed in the biscuit with an elaborate green leaf, the birds with detailed relief hairwork to their necks and inside feather work to their wings, all on a green and clear-glazed ground on the rectangular base, the underside revealing muslin marks from the firing.
4 ¾ inches, 12.1 cm long; 4 ¼ inches, 10.8 cm high.
Kangxi, 1662-1722.
