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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22. YI6
£11,500Japanese porcelain celadon lavender glazed wine jar and cover, shukaiko, of guan form with vertical ribbed body and six-petalled stylised lotus leaf cover, covered overall on the base, interior and underside of the cover in a celadon lavender Ru-type glaze thinning at the ribs, the rim, foot rim and underside cover rim brown.
8 1/8 inches, 20.6 cm diameter; 7 inches, 17.8 cm high.
Kawase Shinobu, 1989.
Wood box, described as ‘celadon shukaiko’, signed and with artist’s seal, Shinobu, on the interior of the cover and the orange clothes.
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.
26 - M4491/2
Pair of Chinese imperial porcelain lavender-glazed altar vessels and covers, dou, each modelled after an archaic bronze with moulded and carved archaic designs, the upright body with ribs and bands all on a splayed, ribbed foot, the cover with a design of scrolls, fretwork and two registers of stylised waves beneath a double-rope twist openwork finial, covered overall including the interior and underside in a luminous, rich and even lavender glaze, all the rims dressed in brown in veneration of the archaic prototype.
The interior of the cover and the underside of the base of each with a six-character sealmark of Qianlong and of the period, 1736-1795.
9 ¾ inches, 24.8 cm and 9 ⅞ inches, 25.1 cm high.
