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Recent acquisitions 2010
Ming Porcelain - Exhibition 2009
Recent Acquisitions 2009
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MARCHANT

Specialist in Antique Asian Art

Recent Acquisitions 2009
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A pair of Chinese porcelain famille verte large bottle vases with ovoid bodies, tall necks, with gently flaring rims, each decorated with large blue and yellow Buddhist lions playing with brocade balls tied with long green ribbons between two iron-red smaller Buddhist lions, their front paws on the tail of the ribbon, above a band of lappets at the foot and beneath a wide band of chrysanthemum and peony flowerheads on a continuous scrolling foliate branch, beneath ruyi heads at the shoulder, the rim with a flower-head diaper band above ruyi heads and pendant music stones.
A pair of Chinese porcelain famille verte dishes with foliate rims, each painted in the centre with a blue enamel qilin looking up at a phoenix bird in flight, encircled in the cavetto by sixteen butterflies, the flat everted rim with four panels of birds amongst daisy, peony and other flowering plants between open-winged butterflies on a geometric ground with prunus, underglaze blue lozenge mark within a double ring.
A pair of Chinese porcelain famille verte fluted dishes with upright foliate rims, each decorated in the centre with a pheasant standing on rockwork amongst peony and magnolia branches, encircled by a narrow band with six white crane reserves on a stylised chrysanthemum flowerhead green-speckled ground, beneath a wide band of twelve panels, with different flowering plants representing the months, beneath a band with six reserves of precious objects between flowerheads on a green-speckled ground, the underside with three iron-red flower sprays.
A Chinese porcelain famille verte and powder blue ground wine ewer with flower-shaped panel enclosing ducks in a lotus pond, the reverse with a bird perched amongst prunus with bamboo sprays and rockwork, all on a rich powder blue and gilt ground decorated with prunus and magnolia branches beneath ruyi heads and pendant tassels at the shoulder.
A pair of Chinese porcelain famille verte standing figures of Europeans, the man wearing an elaborate wig, the curls heightened in black enamel, his pale green jacket decorated with cloud scrolls lined in blue enamel and wearing a yellow undershirt and tied cravat, holding an aubergine tricorn hat with black enamel shoes, supported behind with a mottled green and yellow rock formation, all on a thin shaped rectangular base, the lady wearing a pale yellow lace-edged short veil over her hair coiffed à la Fontanges, a pearl necklace, a lace-edged bodice and cuffs and a green dress, perfectly matching the green of the man`s trousers, draped over her iron-red and yellow-embroidered petticoat, the folds accentuated with grisaille hatching, and standing on a low base.
A Chinese porcelain blue and white bottle vase with slender cylindrical neck and gently flaring rim, painted with the moon goddess Chang Er and nine of her attendants, some with scroll, wrapped qin, peach, white hare, osmanthus sprig and fan respectively, all in a continuous scene with screen, wuti and cloud scrolls beneath the lotus topped roof and the moon, four character mark of Chenghua.
A Chinese porcelain blue and white baluster vase with flaring ribbed neck, painted with palace scenes of the Emperor and lady musicians in front of a canopied screen, all amongst clouds and rockwork with fencing, the reverse with three different trees all beneath a ribbed neck with bands of keyfret scrolls and studs.
A Chinese porcelain famille verte, rouge de fer and gilt armorial dish painted in the centre with the Royal Arms of France encircled by the collars of the Orders of Saint-Michel and Saint-Esprit between vignettes with trays of melon above lotus branches, a tray with a finger citron and a fruiting pomegranate and prunus branch between diaper gilt and iron-red bands with four further vignettes of stylised flowers on an iron-red and gilt lotus ground, the underside with four iron-red camellia sprays.
A Chinese porcelain large armorial dish painted in the centre with the arms of Thomas Pitt of Blandford, Baron Londonderry, with those of his wife Lady Frances Ridgeway in pretence above a banderol inscribed with the motto AMITIE, the rim with the stork crest beneath a baron`s coronet between fronds, within four oval panels alternating with gold and iron-red floral sprays, the underside with lingzhi mark within a double circle in underglaze-blue.
A Chinese porcelain famille rose semi egg-shell saucer dish, delicately painted with a seated lady watching two boys at play beside two large jars, books, tied scrolls, a jardinière of flowers and fruit including finger citron and a wood pedestal stand with a vase of peony and orchid beside a gilt tripod incense burner, all encircled by demi-lotus flowerheads and foliage within an octagonal diaper band with stylised jewelled flowerheads at the rim.
A pair of Chinese porcelain famille rose groups of lovers, each depicting a kneeling gentleman wearing a chilong dragon-medallion robe holding a conical square cup and smiling at a lady standing at his side with her arm over his shoulder, each figure with detailed head dress, the lady with elaborate striped robes and ruyi head yellow-ground shawl.
A pair of Chinese Imperial porcelain famille verte birthday dishes, each painted with a standing scholar holding an iron-red staff beside his attendant holding a fan, amongst rockwork and plants, each encircled by five butterflies and iron-red magnolia blooms on the flat gently everted lipped rim.
A Chinese Imperial porcelain ``peachbloom`` brushwasher tiangluo xi of compressed globular form, covered on the exterior with a bright and even glaze of crushed-strawberry tone with natural minute speckling jiangdou hong, the rim, interior and base glazed white.
A Chinese porcelain blue and white and underglaze copper-red lantern vase, painted with the three star gods, Luxing, the god of rank and affluence holding a boy and wearing a jacket decorated with bats, and Shoulao the god of longevity wearing a robe with a ``hundred`` shou characters, on either side of Fuxing, the god of happiness and wealth symbolising the embodiment of the Emperor, wearing a five-claw dragon robe and a neck plaque with the characters qinci ``Imperial favour bestowed from the Emperor``, while stroking his beard and holding a ruyi sceptre, all beside four further children holding a peach, lingzhi branch and prunus branch respectively in a continuous landscape scene with a speckled deer and two cranes beneath pine amongst rockwork and bamboo sprays with a single bat in flight, all between bands of ruyi head on the gentle ogee foot and a band of different underglaze copper-red flowerheads amongst foliage repeated on the neck between two ribs and three bands of varying ruyi-heads.
A Chinese Imperial porcelain famille rose, fencai fruit and flowerhead medallion bowl evenly potted with slightly flared rim, decorated on the exterior with four medallions of a fruiting peach branch, a floral branch with peony and camellia, a fruiting pomegranate branch and a flowering tree peony branch with buds, all on a bright ruby graviata ground carved with feather arabesques between stylised flowerheads on foliate branches, the well of the interior in underglaze blue with a basket of peaches and various flowerheads in a central medallion encircled by four different floral branches including prunus, lingzhi, pomegranate, peony and other flowering plants.
A Chinese Imperial Beijing-enamel yellow-ground famille rose, fencai ovoid jar and domed cover with recessed base and short cylindrical neck, delicately enamelled with peonies and passion flowers on scrolling branches with leaves and buds beneath a simulated brocade sash tied in a large bow at the front and decorated with butterfly medallions between double peach sprays on a diaper ground covering four lobed lotus flowerhead pale blue-ground panels at the shoulder and beneath a band of twelve pendant lingzhi at the neck, the yellow-ground cover with peony flowerheads beneath a blue ruyi-head band and gilt bud finial.
A Chinese large jade brush washer in the form of an open lingzhi fungus, carved in high relief with branches of bats among fungus and two chilong dragons climbing amongst the fungus beneath a stylised lingzhi cloud, the rim with a dragon in pursuit of a flaming pearl, with realistic scales on the dragon’s body and tail, the stone of pale celadon tone with russet markings.
A Chinese white jade brushwasher in the form of a conch shell, with naturalistic fluted body and spiral point, the underside with swirling crested waves, the stone of even colour with slight crushed-snow markings.
A Chinese pale celadon jade peach-tree raft with mottled yellow inclusions, carved in high relief with two scholars seated at a table drinking wine in large cups beside two wine jars, another standing steering the naturalistic wood raft with a lingzhi-form rudder, the raft carved on both sides simulating gnarled wood and containing a large peony bloom at the front, the back of the raft with a large overhanging peach tree growing from the raft with fruit and leaves, the underside with swirling crested waves.
A Chinese white, taupe and russet jade carving of the mythological seahorse hei ma to shu, carved from a single pebble with the horse striding amongst crested waves, its head turned back holding scrolls tied with a long ribbon on its back, with fine detail to the hairwork.