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
M5792
£18,500Chinese imperial porcelain copper-red glazed saucer dish, thinly potted with gently flared lipped rim, covered overall in a rich and even sang-de-boeuf glaze beneath the white-glazed rim.
The base with a six-character mark of Qianlong, within a double ring in underglaze blue and of the period.
Qianlong, 1736-1795
6 15/16 inches, 17.6 cm diameter.
14. M5198
£10,500Japanese porcelain pale celadon glazed pinched ‘lotus’ flower-shaped beaker vase, with tall slender body, gently splayed foot and wide pinched flower rim, covered overall on the base and interior in an even pale celadon glaze thinning at the rim and edge of the foot rim, the flat foot unglazed revealing the biscuit body.
13 inches, 33.1 cm high.
Kawase Shinobu, 1985.
Wood box, described as ‘celadon flower vase’, signed and with artist’s seal, Shinobu, on the interior of the cover and the orange cloth.
S1654
Chinese famille verte biscuit porcelain 'piggyback' group modelled as a standing smiling young man wearing long yellow ground floral robes and the official badge of a first-grade civil mandarin beneath three button tied clasps carrying a younger boy on his back who wears an aubergine ground flower head jacket, the base unglazed.
8 7/8 inches, 22.6 cm high.
Early Kangxi, circa 1680.
Carved wood stand.
