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
27. M5342
£9,500Large Chinese famille verte biscuit porcelain sancai openwork fruit-form pyramid scroll weight, zhizhen, on a quatrefoil-lobed integral stand, with extensive fruit in green, yellow, aubergine and black glazes, amongst large vine leaves, all on an openwork rock form ground, the sancai splashed base with everted, green-glazed rim, the base unglazed.
8 inches, 20.3 cm high.
Early Kangxi, circa 1680.
27 - M5240
Chinese imperial porcelain ruby ground famille rose enamelled vase, feng er ping, with light blue and dark blue enamelled outlined openwork phoenix handles, decorated on each side with the Eight Daoist Emblems, anbaxian on a rich and even ruby-red enamel ground above a lappet band with ruyi-head terminals and a leaf band on a gently splayed foot, all beneath a yellow ground band of ruyi-heads at the gilt rim, the interior and base lined with turquoise enamel.
The underside with a six-character sealmark of Qianlong in iron-red and of the period, 1736-1795. 12 ⅛ inches, 30.8 cm high.
44. M3703
£8,000Japanese porcelain celadon glazed flower bowl deeply potted with six everted petals, covered overall on the base and interior with an even pale celadon glaze thinning at the rim, the small short biscuit foot rim revealing the body.
9 3/8 inches, 23.8 cm diameter.
Kawase Shinobu, 2014.
Wood box, described as ‘celadon flower-shaped bowl’, signed and with artist’s seal, Shinobu, on the interior of the cover and the orange cloth.











