Chinese Imperial

A Chinese Imperial porcelain wucai saucer dish.  Six-character mark of Jiajing within a double ring in underglaze blue, Kangxi, 1662-1722. Courtesy Marchant painted in the centre with two iron-red carp, one leaping from the water and the other swimming beneath, all amongst lotus leaves, flowers, arrowhead, grasses and aquatic plants, encircled by an underglaze-blue double ring, the cavetto with four further carp and a mandarin fish amongst dense aquatic plants, flowerheads and grasses, beneath an underglaze-blue double line... [Lire la suite]

A pair of Chinese Imperial porcelain copper-red glazed jardinières and stands.  Yongzheng four character sealmarks and of the period, 1723-1735.  photos courtesy Marchant of deep “U”-form with flat everted lipped rim, the stands with chrysanthemum petal ribs on the exterior, covered over all in a rich red glaze, thinning to a paler tone on the petals, the rim interior and base glazed white.  4 ¼ inches, 10.6cm total height. Price on application Formerly in the collection of a North American Chinese family,... [Lire la suite]

A Chinese Imperial porcelain wucai dragon and phoenix bowl. Six character sealmark of Jiaqing and of the period, 1796-1820. photos courtesy Marchantwith slightly flared rim, painted with a green and iron-red dragon in pursuit of flaming pearls, separated by two swooping phoenix birds, all amongst flowers and foliage, beneath a band of the bajixian, alternating with ruyi-heads, the well of the interior with a similar iron-red dragon medallion, encircled by two underglaze blue double rings; 5 1/8 inches, 13cm diameter.... [Lire la suite]