MARCHANT
Marchant was founded in 1925 by Samuel Sydney Marchant (1897-1975). Specialties are Imperial Chinese Ming and Qing porcelains, jades, cloisonné, pottery and works of art. Emphasis is placed on rarity, quality, condition and provenance.
Marchant pride themselves on fine pieces that have passed through their hands, many now in major museums and collections worldwide. Services that can be undertaken are the buying and selling of pieces and collections, commission bidding in auctions around the world and specialist advice.
120 Kensington Church Street
London
W8 4BH
Stuart Marchant, Samuel Marchant, Richard Marchant, Natalie Marchant Phone +44 (0)20 7229 5319 Email gallery@marchantasianart.com Website www.marchantasianart.com
TWO EXHIBITIONS
AN EXHIBITION OF BLANC DE CHINE AND AN EXHIBITION OF KOSOMETSUKE
120 Kensington Church Street, London, W8 4BH
28th October – 8th November 2024
Blanc de Chine and Kosometsuke are two of our favourite disciplines at Marchant and this will be a special double exhibition, as a farewell to our Kensington Church Street gallery, ahead of our move to 26 Brook Street.
This will be our 5th Blanc de Chine exhibition since the 60th Anniversary in 1985 and our 3rd kosometsuke exhibition, although kosometsuke has featured within several other exhibitions. Both the exhibitions have been carefully curated with fine examples of rarity, condition and provenance.
Monday – Friday 10.30-17.30
Saturday 2nd November 11.00-20.00
Sunday 3rd November closed
Late Night Opening – Sat 2nd November until 20.00
Talks:
Blanc de Chine: Exhibition Talk, Saturday 2nd November (12:00-13:00).
Kosometsuke: Exhibition Talk, Saturday 2nd November (17:00 – 18:00).
RSVP: gallery@marchantasianart.com
Chinese blanc de Chine figure of Guanyin, impressed He Chaozong Yin mark on the reverse.
11 3/8 inches, 28.9 cm.
Late Ming dynasty, c. 1620-1640.
*Sold by Maison C.T. Loo Paris.
*Formerly in an important French private collection.
Chinese porcelain blue and white nightlight modelled as a crouching tiger.
11 3/8 inches, 28.9 cm long; 6 7/8 inches, 17.5 cm high.
Tianqi, 1621-1627.
• From the Jintsu-Seigando Collection, acquired by Mr. Jintsu’s father in Toyama over 30 years ago.
• Sold by Jintsu-Seigando, 7th June 2018.
• Only one other similar example appears to be published.
Chinese blanc de Chien wine pot and cover, tied around the middle with a double ribbon, the spout and handle each in the form of a chilong dragon, incised with a four-character mark xi yuan han mo, "scholars of the Western Garden", the cover with a Buddhist lion finial.
6 3/8 inches, 16.2 cm total height.
Dehua, Fujian Province.
Late Ming, circa 1620-1640.
* Formerly in the collection of Mr H Soudevar.
* The four-character mark is from the Tang Dynasty poem, en zhi ci shi yu li zheng dian shu yuan yan fu de lin zhi, "Gathering of Scholars at the Western Garden" by the poet Zhang shuo.
