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Fine Asian Works of Art
Monday, June 23, 2014
Fine Asian Works of Art
June 23, 2014, 10am
Japanese Works of Art: Lots 7001-7030
Chinese Works of Art
Jade and Hardstone Carvings: Lots 7034-7132
Snuff Bottles: Lots 7133-7182
Chinese Glass: Lots 7185-7195
Works of Art: Lots 7196-7280
Furniture: Lots 7285-7296
Textiles: Lots 7300-7313
Chinese Paintings, Calligraphy and Books: Lots 7315-7359
Chinese Ceramics: Lots 7360-7436
Preview dates:
Friday, May 30, 12pm - 5pm
Saturday, May 31, 10am - 5pm
Sunday, June 1, 9am - 5pm
Friday, June 20, 12pm - 5pm
Saturday, June 21, 10am - 5pm
Sunday, June 22, 10am - 5pm
Day of sale, beginning at 9am
& by appointment
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Asian Art
Harry Huang
(510) 227-2535
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Kim Jee
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Catalog Design by Andre Salcido
Photography by Jeffrey Lee and
Ryan Darcy.
Front Cover Lot: 7354
Back Cover Lot: 7332
Opposite Page Lot: 7431
Page 8 Lot: 7252
Page 72 Lot: 7346
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Japanese Works of Art
Lot 7001
Lot 7002
7001
After Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849): An Album
of Thirty-Six Views of Mt. Fuji Woodblock Prints
Oban, each titled and inscribed.
Estimate: $3,000 / 5,000
7002
Anonymous (Tosa School)
18th Century
Four-panel screen; ink, color, gold and gold leaf on paper, possibly
depicting a chapter from The Tale of Genji.
36 1/4 x 72 inches (92 x 183 cm) approximately
Estimate: $1,000 / 1,500
7003
A Japanese Folding Screen
Lot 7003
Edo Period
7004
A Japanese Hanging Scroll
The five-panel screen depicting a chapter from The Tale of Genji
in color, gold and gold leaves, set within a frame.
65 1/2 x 122 1/2 inches (166.4 x 311.2 cm) approximately
Depicting two Japanese beauties walking under
the umbrella, ink and color on silk, the lower left
signed with a seal; accompanied by wood box.
48 1/2 x 20 1/4 inches (123.2 x 51.4 cm)
Estimate: $4,000 / 6,000
Provenance:
Walnut Creek Estate.
Estimate: $1,000 / 1,500
Provenance:
Kyoto, Japan, 2004.
7005
Robert Crowder (1911-2010): Five
Horsemen
Circa 1958
Ink and color on paper, painted in the style of a
Japanese folding screen, the lower right signed
‘Robert Crowder,’ framed.
95 3/4 x 35 inches (243 x 89 cm)
Estimate: $2,000 / 3,000
The American-born artist, Robert Crowder, is best
known for his Nihonga, or Japanese-style painting. Mr.
Crowder studied under the master Mochizuki Shunko
(1893-1979) while teaching English in pre-war Japan.
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Lot 7005
Lot 7004
Lot 7007
Lot 7006
Lot 7008
Lot 7009
Lot 7010
7006
A Pair of Japanese Cast Iron Stirrups
7007
A Pair of Japanese Silver-Inlaid Cast Iron Stirrups
Edo Period
Edo Period
Each of simplistic undecorated design, the insteps with traces of
red lacquer.
Height: 9 3/4 inches (24.7 cm) each approximately
Each decorated in silver inlay with a lozenge motif surrounded by
delicate scrolling leafy vines, the insteps painted with red lacquer,
the bases subtly decorated with further vine scrolls.
Estimate: $800 / 1,200
Estimate: $2,000 / 3,000
7008
A Gilt-Decorated Iron Tsuba
7009
A Parcel-Gilt Bronze Tsuba
7010
The oval iron plate pierced with a busy scene
depicting several robed figures within a bamboo
grove beneath swirling clouds, details heightened by
vibrant gilding, signed.
Height: 2 7/8 inches (7.3 cm)
The oval plate decorated with a bearded man holding a sword and with a horse, the reserve depicting
several robed figures in pursuit of the man upon a
grassy creek bed, the details highlighted in gold and
silver overlay, unsigned.
The subtle mokko plate featuring the twelve zodiac
signs with alternating gilding, the rim and edge heavily decorated with a continuous leafy floral border,
the intricate details embellished by further gilding,
unsigned.
Estimate: $4,000 / 6,000
Estimate: $1,300 / 1,500
Estimate: $800 / 1,000
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Lot 7011
Lot 7012
Lot 7014
Lot 7013
7011
7012
A Gilt-Decorated Iron Tsuba
The circular plate decorated with a sinuous dragon in pursuit of a
flaming pearl to each side, shown flying amidst swirling clouds
above crashing waves with a pine tree to the left side, small details
heightened by gold overlay, unsigned.
The circular iron plate decorated with two crickets amidst a leafy
double gourd vine that continues to the reverse side, the details
delicately heightened by gilt and silver, signed.
Estimate: $700 / 900
Estimate: $2,000 / 3,000
7013
Three Japanese Silver Objects
7014
A Japanese Cloisonné Square-Form Vase
Early 20th Century
Early 20th Century
The first a globular form vase decorated with three
swimming koi fish, the very short neck supporting
an inverted mouth, the base stamped pure silver and
with a three-character mark; along with two small
circular cups, each stamped pure silver to the base.
Height: 7 5/8 inches (19.4 cm); Weight: 32.38 ounces
(919 g) of vase
Each side panel with red-ground medallions featuring alternating phoenix and floral designs, between
thick bands of pink peony at the neck, and a mask
and ruyi-head pattern encircling the body, tapering
to the foot with an adventurine-flecked green
ground.
Height: 14 1/2 inches (37 cm)
Estimate: $2,000 / 3,000
Estimate: $1,500 / 2,000
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Lot 7015
7015
A Small Japanese Cloisonné Enamel
Vase
The rounded body scattered with intricately
designed fans in variously colored enamels against a
dark blue ground, the neck and spreading foot with
a thick band of chrysanthemum scrolls, a floral mark
to the base, with a wood stand.
Height: 6 1/4 inches (15.8 cm) excluding stand
Estimate: $1,500 / 2,000
Lot 7016
Lot 7017
Lot 7019
Lot 7018
7016
A Pair of Japanese Cloisonné Vases
Each designed with a tapering foot rising to a wide shoulder of
rounded hexagonal form, finely enameled with sparrows flying and
roosting amidst blooming prunus trees against a dark midnight-blue
ground, the flat rim and foot with a similar floral pattern, a mark to
each base.
Estimate: $7,000 / 9,000
7018
A Japanese Cloisonné Vase
Early 20th Century
The elongated baluster form decorated with large
pink and white roses against a light turquoise
ground, a fan form mark to the metal base.
Lot 7020
7017
Early 20th Century
The thick baluster form intricately decorated with two small birds
amidst lush, flowering wisteria vines overshadowing plants issuing
red and yellow flowers below, reversed by elegantly designed irises,
a mark stamped to the white metal base.
Estimate: $2,000 / 3,000
7019
A Japanese White-Ground Cloisonné
Vase
Early 20th Century
The rounded baluster form with a cylindrical neck
rising to a flaring mouth, the body heavily decorated
with a variety of vibrant flowers, the neck scattered
with pink flowers and inlaid with wire scrolls
between fish scale bands, a circle design to the base.
7020
The blue-ground baluster form decorated with
prunus branches bearing white flowers above
orange chrysanthemums, a pale green lozenge pattern just below the rim and above the foot, a diamond design to the base.
Estimate: $1,000 / 1,200
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7021
A Cloisonné Enamel Koro
Early 20th Century
Of compressed bulbous form raised upon three splayed
feet, a pair of strap handles issuing from the shoulder,
decorated with intricate designs enclosed within lappets
and bands encircling the body, featuring phoenixes, dragons, birds and flowers overall, the lid designed en suite
and pierced with drop shapes radiating from the central
finial.
Estimate: $2,500 / 3,000
7022
A Pair of Japanese Bronze Vases
Lot 7021
Lot 7022
Each with a rolled rim and compressed shoulder supported upon an elongated tapering foot, the dark gray ground
decorated with a pair of long tail roosters resting on a
prunus branch in silver and gold, signed verso.
Estimate: $2,500 / 3,000
7023
A Bronze Koro
Meiji Period
Of compressed globular form raised upon three short
conjoined feet, decorated to the exterior with several
cranes in silver, gold and black, all against a deep honey
ground, the lid depicting various flowers and a phoenix,
topped by an ovoid finial with a figure and willow tree,
the interior lined with a removable white metal container,
marks to the side and base.
Estimate: $6,000 / 8, 000
7024
A Japanese Bronze Box and Cover
Lot 7023
The octagonal box finely decorated to the lid with a emaciated dog cowering beneath a pine tree and monkey
while sheltering itself from a storm, all upon a grassy riverbed, with a mark to the base of the box.
Width: 5 inches (12.7 cm)
Estimate: $1,500 / 2,000
7025
A Japanese Bronze and Mixed-Metal Vase
Meiji Period
Worked in relief with seventy birds of copper, gilt and silver above stylized crashing waves, a band of butterflies
near the inverted mouth.
Estimate: $1,500 / 2,000
Provenance:
Mr. Vito Giallo Collection, primarily acquired from
Sotheby’s New York during the 1960s-1980s.
Lot 7024
Lot 7025
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Lot 7026
Lot 7027
Lot 7028
Lot 7029
7026
Two Japanese Bronze Figures of Dogs
Meiji Period
The first shown sitting with one paw slightly raised, the rounded
body highlighted with textured fur and a short curled tail, stamped
with a two-character seal mark to the base; the second posed in a
playful crouching position with an open mouth and curled tail.
Taller: 5 3/4 inches (14.6 cm)
Estimate: $800 / 1,200
Lot 7030
7027
Two Lacquered Inro with a Small Copper
Articulated Okimono
19th and Early 20th Centuries
The first a four-case inro designed in gold to depict a busy mountainous landscape with buildings and trees, netsuke and ojime; the
second a one-case inro decorated with a figure on horseback
reversed by two demons in lacquer, the lid fitted with a hidden
drawer, netsuke and ojime; the third an okimono in the form of a
crayfish with realistic articulation to the limbs, the naturalistic body
with incised and repoussé details, signed to the underside.
Tallest: 2 5/8 inches (6.6 cm)
Estimate: $1,000 / 1,500
7028
Two Lacquered Inro
7029
Two Japanese Enameled Footed Censers
19th Century
Meiji Period
The first a four-case inro designed in gold with rolling waves, further decorated with inlay of various
fish in mother-of-pearl and colorful enamels, the
base inscribed and with a two-character mark within
a mother-of-pearl cartouche, box-form netsuke; the
second a one-case inro depicting a serene landscape
scene, netsuke and ojime.
Taller: 4 inches (10.2 cm)
The Satsuma ware censer framed by a pair of arching handles, the body decorated with flowers and
birds, with a Buddhist lion finial to the pierced cover,
resting on four lion-head legs, the base marked
Satsuma; along with a small compressed circular
form polychrome tripod censer.
Tallest: 13 inches (33 cm)
Estimate: $1,000 / 1,500
7030
A Japanese Enameled Porcelain Figure
of Guanyin
Meiji Period
Shown standing, her robe decorated with clouds,
phoenixes and auspicious symbols, a scroll in her
right hand.
Estimate: $800 / 1,200
Estimate: $1,000 / 1,500
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Chinese Works of Art
featuring the Mr. Vito Giallo Collection
Michaan's Auctions is honored to present 61 lots of Fine Chinese Works
of Art from the Mr.Vito Giallo Collection. Mr. Giallo’s collection offers
connoisseurs some of the finest pieces of Ming and Qing ceramics, jade
and hardstone carvings, and metalwork. With pieces primarily acquired
from Sotheby's New York during the 1960s-1980s, Mr. Giallo came to
New York in 1949 as a young commercial artist where he served as
Andy Warhol’s first paid assistant in 1955. From there he opened a
succession of Manhattan-based antique stores that catered to New
York’s rich and famous. By the 1980s, a number of New York’s most rich
and famous would frequently visit Mr. Giallo’s Madison Avenue store to
inquire about his most recently acquired items. According to Mr. Giallo,
he sold thousands of items to Warhol, with much of Sotheby’s catalogue
of Warhol’s estate detailing purchases from Mr. Giallo’s store.
Notable highlights from the jade, hardstone and other carvings category, among many others, include a white jade carving depicting the Tang
dynasty poet Li Bai (lot 7067), a 17th century jade mythical beast-form
water dropper (lot 7068), and a large agate ‘lotus’ censer from the Qing
dynasty. Exceptional organic material pieces can be found in lots 7252
and 7253 comprising various fine amber carvings from the Qing dynasty,
and a diverse group of coral carvings in lot 7258. The metalwork
category will feature two fine 17th/18th century gilt-splashed bronze
pieces, a Gu-form vase (lot 7220) and a compressed form censer (lot
7221). Examples from the Ming and Qing ceramic category include two
celadon-glazed vases (lot 7372) from the early Ming dynasty, three blueglazed porcelains (lot 7381), and an ‘imitation bronze’ glazed porcelain
tripod censer (lot 7385) from the 18th century.
Vito Giallo, October 10, 2010. Photo by Steven Atlas.
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Jade and Hardstone Carvings
Lot 7035
Lot 7036
Lot 7034
Lot 7038
Lot 7037
7034
A White Jade Plaque
Qing Dynasty
The rectangular plaque decorated to one side with
the Hehe twins on a banana leaf, the reverse with an
inscription bearing two seals reading wen wan.
Height: 2 inches (5.1 cm)
Estimate: $5,000 / 7,000
Provenance:
Bonhams, San Francisco, June 19, 2012, lot 6071.
7035
Three Jade Archer’s Rings
7036
Three Jade Plaques
The first of fine white stone skillfully worked in
relief with archaistic motifs between key-fret borders; the second crisply carved in low relief with
similar archaistic motifs; the third with a raised geometric patterned band encircling the exterior.
The first of circular form carved in relief with a pair
of leafy peaches and two bats; the second of oval
form carved in relief to depict two bearded gentlemen in a mountainous setting beneath a large pine
tree; the third of lobed oval form, the central panel
carved in relief to depict a male figure and attendant
in a forest, all within a raised border.
Longest: 4 3/8 inches (11.1 cm)
Estimate: $3,000 / 5,000
7037
Three Jade Belt Ornaments
The first a two-piece dragon belt buckle carved in low relief with
lotus flowers; the second an archaistic style belt hook carved with
stylized lingzhi; the third is a former belt hook in the form of a
crouching sinuous chilong dragon.
Estimate: $2,500 / 3,500
Estimate: $2,000 / 3,000
7038
A White Jade Bi Disk
18th/19th Century
Carved to both sides with alternating ruyi-shaped motifs and dots,
and between narrow inner and outer borders.
Diameter: 2 7/16 inches (6.2 cm)
Estimate: $2,000 / 3,000
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Lot 7040
Lot 7039
Lot 7043
Lot 7042
Lot 7041
7039
Four Jade Fruit Carvings
7040
Three Jade Animal Carvings
18th/19th Century
18th/19th Century
The first a peach with five bats, the stone of an even celadon hue
with areas of russet inclusions; the second a smaller peach with a
bat, the semi-translucent stone of an even celadon hue with areas
of russet inclusions; the third a lotus pod with leaves and flowers
attached, the semi-translucent stone of a milky white hue with russet inclusions; the fourth of three aubergine plants, the stone of an
even celadon hue.
Longest: 2 3/4 inches (7 cm)
The first of a deer shown resting and clutching a lingzhi fungus
branch; the second of two geese with a millet spray; the third of a
recumbent badger with a lingzhi fungus spray.
Longest: 2 1/16 (5.7 cm)
Estimate: $1,500 / 2,000
Estimate: $2,000 / 3,000
7041
Three Jade Carvings
7042
A White Jade Pendant
18th/19th Century
18th/19th Century
The first a pendant carved with a pheasant perched
on a prunus tree, the reverse with a four-character
mark reading ‘weishou wannian’, all within raised
stylized borders; the second a pendant carved with
a bird under a fruiting pomegranate tree, the
reverse with the double-happiness character; the
third a sword ornament carved with a chilong dragon.
Of rectangular form, the pendant carved in shallow
relief with a pair of dragons to the top, on one side
depicting two deer under a pine tree, the reverse
with an inscription, the well polished stone of an
even white tone.
Estimate: $3,000 / 5,000
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Estimate: $3,000 / 5,000
7043
A White Jade Pendant
Carved in relief to both sides with two stylized
mythical creatures above a bi disk, the stone of an
even pale tone.
Estimate: $3,000 / 5,000
Lot 7045
Lot 7044
Lot 7046
Lot 7047
7044
A Large Celadon Jade Bowl
7045
Three Jade Carvings
7046
Three Jade Carvings
20th Century
Qing Dynasty
Ming/Early Qing Dynasty
The deeply hollowed circular vessel with tapering
sides, carved in high relief around the exterior with
four sinuous chilong dragons clambering to the rim,
with a reticulated wood stand.
Comprising a bi disk with two chilong, a chilongform belt hook, and a compressed cong with rounded corners.
Comprising a lotus-form brush washer, a recumbent
goose, and a resting chimera.
Estimate: $6,000 / 8,000
Estimate: $3,000 / 5,000
7047
Two Jade Carvings
7048
A White Jade Bangle
Qing Dynasty
18th Century
The first reticulated pendant carved as a
sinuous dragon, the white stone with russet inclusions; the second of irregular form,
surmounted by a qilin, carved with a
two-character seal.
Carved as twin confronting dragon heads
with long double horns; along with a dragon head mounted as a clip.
Width: 3 5/16 inches (8.4 cm)
Estimate: $4,000 / 6,000
Estimate: $2,000 / 3,000
Estimate: $2,000 / 3,000
Lot 7048
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Lot 7049
Lot 7050
Lot 7052
Lot 7051
Lot 7053
7049
Two Jade Bangles
7050
Four Jade Pendants
Qing Dynasty
Qing Dynasty
Comprising a russet nephrite bangle with raised decoration of stylized characters and auspicious animals, and an undecorated jadeite
bangle of an even white hue.
Diameter: 3 inches (7.6 cm) each approximately
The first with a scholar under a pine tree, the reverse with an
inscription and two seals; the second with a maiden holding a lotus
flower to both sides; the third featuring a landscape, the reverse
inscribed and with two seals; the fourth with a magnolia branch, the
reverse with a four-character seal mark within a double-square.
Estimate: $1,500 / 2,000
Provenance:
Bay Area Private Estate Collection. Acquired in Hong Kong during
the 1960s and 1970s, and thence by decent within the family to the
current owner.
Estimate: $5,000 / 7,000
Provenance:
Bay Area Private Estate Collection. Acquired in Hong Kong during
the 1960s and 1970s, and thence by decent within the family to the
current owner.
7051
Two White Jade Pendants
7052
Four Jade Belt Hooks
7053
Three Jade Carvings
18th Century
18th Century
17th Century
The first featuring the double-happiness character
to one side, the reverse with the propitious characters ‘jichang’, the top carved with stylized clouds; the
second carved as a belt accessory with a bat-form
suspender, both semi-translucent nephrite stones of
an even milky white tone.
Comprising three dragon-head hooks, with one featuring two monkeys approaching a peach along the
top of the shaft; the fourth with a horse-head hook
and a pair of ribbon-tied scrolls in relief along the
top of the shaft.
Comprising two hairpins finely carved with nodules
and featuring birds and flowers in openwork; along
with a compass ladle featuring decorations of a
chilong in low relief.
Estimate: $4,000 / 6,000
Provenance:
Bay Area Private Estate Collection. Acquired in Hong
Kong during the 1960s and 1970s, and thence by
decent within the family to the current owner.
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Estimate: $3,000 / 5,000
Provenance:
Estimate: $2,000 / 3,000
Provenance:
Lot 7054
7054
A Jade Finial
7055
Four Figural Jade Carvings
17th/18th Century
Qing Dynasty
The perch-form finial with rounded ends,
all supported on a hollowed foot for fitting atop a vessel, wood stand.
Length: 4 5/8 inches (11.7 cm)
Comprising three each depicting a boy
holding a lotus spray; along with a bearded
gentleman holding a basket and flowers.
Estimate: $3,000 / 5,000
Estimate: $2,000 / 3,000
Provenance:
Bay Area Private Estate Collection.
Acquired in Hong Kong during the 1960s
and 1970s, and thence by decent within
the family to the current owner.
Provenance:
7056
Nine Jade and Hardstone
Archer’s Rings
7057
Eight Reticulated Jade Plaques
Qing Dynasty
Comprising two circular plaques each featuring Daoist immortals amidst clouds and
animals, two plaques depicting butterflies,
two plaques with auspicious characters, a
lock-form plaque with bats and flowers,
and a plaque featuring gourds and flowers.
Widest: 3 inches (7.6 cm)
Qing Dynasty
Comprising four nephrite rings, three
jadeite rings, one agate ring, and a pudding
stone ring; along with a group of silver salt
and pepper mounts.
Height: 1 inch (2.54 cm) each approximately
Estimate: $3,000 / 5,000
Estimate: $6,000 / 8,000
Provenance:
Lot 7055
Provenance:
7058
A Jade Belt Buckle
Late Ming Dynasty
The oval buckle carved and pierced with
three egrets in a lotus pond, the stone of
a pale celadon tone with black and russet
inclusions.
Estimate: $2,000 / 3,000
Lot 7056
Provenance:
Lot 7057
Lot 7058
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Lot 7060
Lot 7061
Lot 7059
Lot 7063
Lot 7062
Lot 7064
7059
A Jade Openwork Pendant
7060
Seven Animal-Form Jade Carvings
7061
Seven Archaistic Jade Carvings
Ming Dynasty or Earlier
Qing Dynasty
Ming Dynasty and Earlier
The teardrop shaped central section carved with
openwork chilong issuing from waves, the reverse
displaying a bi disk, the mottled and russet stone
displaying signs of calcification.
Comprising a toggle with a butterfly on a gourd, a
toggle of a badger resting on a banana leaf, a toggle
of a rodent on a double gourd, two goose-form toggles, a small square-form seal with a lion, and a toggle depicting a winged beast.
Comprising five cong of various sizes and decorations, a double-cong pendant featuring a chilong, and
a bi disk with the raised-dot decoration.
Estimate: $3,000 / 5,000
Provenance:
Estimate: $2,000 / 3,000
Provenance:
Provenance:
Estimate: $7,000 / 9,000
7062
A White Jade Bead
7063
Two White Jade Carvings
7064
Three Jade Carvings
Qing Dynasty
Qing Dynasty
18th/19th Century
Of cylindrical form, the exterior carved with geometric designs, the milky-white stone with russet
inclusions.
Height: 1 inch (2.5 cm)
The first a snuff bottle carved to one side with flowers; the second a model of a recumbent water buffalo.
Comprising two belt hooks, one yellow jade carved
as a dragon group, the other with a goose-head
form terminal, and a hairpin with a ruyi-form head
terminal.
Estimate: $1,000 / 1,500
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Estimate: $3,000 / 5,000
Estimate: $1,500 / 2,000
7065
Five Jade Carvings
Qing Dynasty
Comprising four toggles of various subject
matters including mushroom cap, bat on a
gourd, duck in lotus pond with a bat above,
and two parrots under flowers; the fifth an
oval shaped ruyi scepter plaque carved in
relief with Buddhist emblems.
Estimate: $2,000 / 3,000
7066
Four Jade Pendants
Each of various shapes, designs and sizes,
three with calligraphic inscriptions, and one
carved in the archaistic style featuring a qilin.
Estimate: $2,000 / 3,000
Lot 7065
Lot 7066
7067
A White Jade Carving of Li Bai
18th/19th Century
The bearded poet carved resting with a wine cup in his
right hand, the semi-translucent white stone with russet
inclusions to the backside, with a matching wood stand.
Estimate: $5,000 / 7,000
Provenance:
Lot 7067
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Lot 7068
Lot 7069
Lot 7070
Lot 7071
Lot 7073
Lot 7072
7068
A Jade Mythical Beast-Form Water
Dropper
7069
A Jade Archaistic Wine Vessel
7070
A Jade Archaistic Tripod Vessel
Qing Dynasty
17th/18th Century
17th Century
In imitation of an archaic bronze guang, the pouring
vessel carved in the form of a Buddhist lion, the perforated lid with a chilong-form handle, the mottled
stone of a moss green tone with various inclusions.
Modeled in the form of an archaic bronze ‘jue’ with
a deeply hollowed body, the exterior with a chilong
and two bats, a loop handle below the curving
spout, all standing on three spreading legs, the stone
of a pale celadon tone with russet inclusions.
The mythical beast carved in a crouching manner, its
head with a pierced mouth and short hollowed ears,
its back with an aperture and rump mane, its tail
bifurcated and its legs with wings, the stone of pale
celadon tone.
Length: 5 inches (12.7 cm)
Estimate: $4,000 / 6,000
Provenance:
Estimate: $4,000 / 6,000
Provenance:
7071
A Jade ‘Lotus’ Libation Cup
7072
Nine Jade and Hardstone Archer’s Rings
18th Century
Qing Dynasty
Smoothly formed as a deeply hollowed lotus flower
entwined with two smaller lotus blooms on leafy
stems, the stone of a pale celadon tone with russet
inclusions.
Comprising four nephrite rings, including three with
carvings to the exterior and one with a flat surface
displaying the russet inclusions; two jadeite rings,
one with patches of deep green inclusions and one
of a faint green hue; and three hardstone rings of
various colors.
Tallest: 1 3/16 inches (3 cm)
Estimate: $2,000 / 3,000
Provenance:
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Estimate: $3,000 / 5,000
Provenance:
Estimate: $3,000 / 5,000
Provenance:
7073
Seventeen Hardstone Beads
Each of cylindrical form and drilled through the center, the semi-translucent stone of various colors
ranging from milky white to russet brown.
Estimate: $1,000 / 1,500
Provenance:
Lot 7075
Lot 7074
Lot 7076
Lot 7078
Lot 7077
7074
Five Archaistic Jade and Hardstone Carvings
7075
Six Archaistic Mottled Jade Carvings
Comprising three bangles and two bi disks.
Widest: 5 inches (12.7 cm)
Comprising four cong, a sword fitting carved with stylized dragons,
and an octagonal-form hair ornament.
Tallest: 4 inches (10.2 cm)
Estimate: $3,000 / 5,000
Provenance:
Mr. Vito Giallo Collection, primarily acquired from Sotheby’s New
York during the 1960s-1980s.
Estimate: $5,000 / 7,000
Provenance:
7076
A Jade ‘Dragon’ Plaque
7077
Four Jade Carvings
7078
A Jade Figural Group
Yuan/Ming Dynasty
Qing Dynasty
18th Century
Deeply carved with a writhing dragon flanked by a
deer, bat, bird and mythical beast, all reserved on a
scrolling cloud ground, the stone of a calcified tone.
Comprising a plaque carved with confronting chilong
and now converted into a belt buckle with an amethyst inset to the middle of the plaque; a circular lidded box with various gemstone embellishments to
the lid; and two dragon-form belt hooks.
Carved to feature a bearded official receiving a hat
from his boy attendant, the semi-translucent stone
of a pale celadon hue.
Estimate: $4,000 / 6,000
Provenance:
Estimate: $4,000 / 6,000
Provenance:
Provenance:
Estimate: $2,000 / 3,000
17
Lot 7079
Lot 7080
7079
Six Jade Carvings of Fruit Groups
7080
Seven Jade Animal Carvings
18th Century
Ming/Qing Dynasty
Comprising three carvings of peas, two of gourds, and a water caltrop group,
each with leafy stems.
Comprising a belt buckle carved as a camel with a rodent on its back, a double
catfish group, a resting rooster with its head turned toward the tail, a badger
with a lingzhi branch, two carvings of dogs, and a three-ram group.
Estimate: $6,000 / 8,000
Provenance:
Mr. Vito Giallo Collection, primarily acquired from Sotheby’s New York during
the 1960s-1980s.
Estimate: $6,000 / 8,000
Provenance:
the 1960s-1980s.
Lot 7081
7081
A Jade Archer’s Ring
The cylindrical ring carved with a figure in a raft surrounded by pine and bamboo, the stone of an even
white tone.
Estimate: $1,000 / 1,500
7082
A Rare Spinach Jade Double-Gourd Form
Wall Vase
Qianlong Period
The upper bulb centered by a white nephrite roundel
enclosing the character da and the lower with the
character ji, forming the phrase da ji (good fortune),
the two separated by a gilt-bronze ribbon-form frame
featuring a champleve-enameled footed stand, the
reverse with a ruyi scepter form hanging hook.
Estimate: $4,000 / 6,000
18
Lot 7082
Lot 7085
Lot 7083
Lot 7084
Lot 7086
Lot 7087
7083
A Celadon Jade Landscape Boulder
7084
A Jade Ruyi Scepter
7085
Three Hardstone Carvings
The natural form carved in the likeness of a mountainous landscape with a scholar and attendant, pine
trees and buildings, the opaque deep green stone
exhibiting russet inclusions throughout.
The undulating fluid form carved as a naturalistic
branch issuing small lingzhi fungi terminating in a
larger stylized lingzhi head, the stone of a warm
milky tone.
Estimate: $4,000 / 6,000
Estimate: $2,000 / 3,000
Qing Dynasty
The first a jade carving depicting twin badgers in
opposition, the stone with small russet inclusions;
the second an opal monkey group surrounding a
giant peach; the third a pale lavender jadeite carving
of flowers and birds; each with a fitted wood stand.
Widest: 3 1/8 inches (8 cm)
Estimate: $1,500 / 2,000
7086
Two Jade Carvings
7087
A Jade Inkwell
Qing Dynasty
Qing Dynasty
The first a red jadeite belt buckle depicting a guardian lion group;
the second a nephrite carving of a cabbage, the white stone with
black inclusions.
Carved with five rats surrounding the well, with russet inclusions.
Estimate: $3,000 / 5,000
Estimate: $4,000 / 6,000
Provenance:
19
Lot 7088
Lot 7089
Lot 7090
Lot 7091
Lot 7092
7088
Two Jade Pendants
7089
Two Jade Carvings
Qing Dynasty
Qing Dynasty
Comprising a pendant carved in the round and in openwork as a
dragon, and a pendant in the form of a phoenix.
Comprising a toggle carved with bamboo and orchid issuing from
garden rocks, and a rectangular pendant depicting figures and flowers.
Estimate: $2,000 / 3,000
Estimate: $2,500 / 3,000
7090
A Jade Toggle
7091
Two Jade Figural Carvings
7092
A Jade ‘Dragon’ Belt Hook
Qing Dynasty
Qing Dynasty
18th/19th Century
Carved as two recumbent badgers facing each other,
the pale celadon stone with russet inclusions.
Both depicting robed figures shown standing while
holding either a covered vase or a plant issuing from
a basket, the stones of greenish-white tones exhibiting russet inclusions.
Taller: 3 inches (7.6 cm)
With a curving shaft carved in relief with delicate
scrolling designs, the terminal end formed as the
head of a double-horned dragon.
Estimate: $2,000 / 3,000
Estimate: $2,000 / 3,000
20
Estimate: $2,500 / 3,000
Lot 7093
Lot 7094
Lot 7097
Lot 7096
Lot 7095
7093
A Jade Mythical Beast Toggle
7094
A Reticulated White Jade Pendant
Qing Dynasty
18th Century
Carved to depict a flattened feline form with its legs tucked under
its body, with smooth ridges running down its back corresponding
to its spine.
The circular pendant displaying a central stylized longevity character flanked by twin sinuous dragons.
Estimate: $3,000 / 5,000
Estimate: $2,000 / 3,000
7095
Three Jade Animal-Form Toggles
7096
A White Jade Archer’s Ring
7097
Two Jade Carvings
18th Century
Qing Dynasty
Qing Dynasty
The first a mandarin duck resting on a lotus leaf and
grasping a lotus flower branch; the second a recumbent badger grasping a lingzhi fungus branch; the
third a double-badger group also with a branch of
lingzhi fungus.
Carved with a band of archaistic scrolled decoration,
the pale white stone of an even tone.
Comprising a white jade dragon-form belt hook; and
a pale yellow jade figure of a cicada.
Estimate: $1,000 / 1,500
Estimate: $2,000 / 3,000
Estimate: $6,000 / 8,000
21
Lot 7100
Lot 7098
Lot 7099
Lot 7101
Lot 7103
Lot 7102
7098
A Jade Plaque
Qing Dynasty
The oval ruyi scepter plaque carved in relief to
depict bats, peaches, lingzhi, rocks and waves, the
white stone of a chicken-bone quality.
7099
A Jade Toggle
Carved as two boys with a string of coins and
climbing a large burlap sack.
Estimate: $1,000 / 1,500
Estimate: $1,000 / 1,500
7100
Two Jade Ink Stick Rests
18th/19th Century
Each carved in the shape of a wood stand with rectangular top and pierced scrolled ends that form the
support.
Longest: 3 inches (7.7 cm)
Estimate: $5,000 / 7,000
7101
Two Jade ‘Double Happiness’ Pendants
7102
Two Jade Carvings
7103
Two Jade Toggles
Qing Dynasty
Qing Dynasty
Qing Dynasty
The reticulated pendant carved with a happiness
character flanked by twin coiling chilong; the smaller
rectangular pendant carved with the double happiness character to the front side in low relief.
Comprising a chilong-form pendant and a water caltrop group toggle.
The first a finger citron group featuring two fruits
and associated leafy stems; the second a double-gourd group featuring three fruits and associated
leafy stems.
Estimate: $3,000 / 5,000
22
Estimate: $3,000 / 5,000
Estimate: $3,000 / 5,000
Lot 7105
Lot 7104
Lot 7106
Lot 7109
Lot 7107
7104
Five Archaistic Carvings
Comprising a hardstone ax head, a green hardstone
huang pendant, a hardstone c-form pendant, a rectangular mottled green glass pendant, and a slender
cylindrical agate bead.
Estimate: $800 / 1,200
7107
Four Reticulated Jade Pendants
Qing Dynasty
Comprising two of butterfly form, one of a stone
chime, and a vase with lotus flowers and leaves.
Widest: 2 11/16 inches (6.8 cm)
Estimate: $1,500 / 2,000
Lot 7108
7105
Two Jade Beast-Form Carvings
7106
Three White Jade Pendants
Qing Dynasty
Qing Dynasty
Comprising a qilin-form pendant and a model of a
recumbent lion.
Comprising a square pendant carved with a bearded
figure, a rectangular belt pendant suspending a twin
dragon loop, and a small oval pendant carved in
relief to depict a landscape.
Estimate: $800 / 1,200
Estimate: $2,000 / 3,000
7108
Four Jade Carvings
7109
Three Jade Carvings
Comprising three bi disks with incised decorations,
and a circular pendant.
Comprising two figural toggles, and a oval pendant
carved with a landscape scene to each side.
Estimate: $2,000 / 3,000
Estimate: $3,000 / 5,000
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Lot 7112
Lot 7110
Lot 7111
Lot 7115
Lot 7114
Lot 7113
7110
Two Jade Hairpins
7111
Two Jade Hairpins
7112
Two Jadeite Archer’s Rings
Qing Dynasty
Qing Dynasty
19th/20th Century
Both hair pins with a ruyi-shaped terminal.
Each head of the hairpin carved as a floral blossom
surrounded by budding branches.
Both evenly carved with undecorated sides and a
soft polish throughout, with areas of apple-green
inclusions, each now mounted onto a silver base
forming a candle holder.
Estimate: $3,000 / 5,000
Estimate: $2,000 / 3,000
Estimate: $1,000 / 1,500
7113
Three Jadeite Carvings
7114
Two Jadeite Carvings of Birds
7115
A Jadeite Mythical Beast
19th/20th Century
Republic Period
19th Century
The first a pierced pendant featuring two confronting chilong; the second a rectangular plaque with
incised lotus decoration; the third an octagonal-form
wine cup.
The first of a parrot standing on a rock, the wings
and tail finely carved to depict the feathers; the second of two egrets wading in a lotus pond.
The recumbent beast shown facing forward with a
lifted head featuring a horn, broad snout, and
opened mouth exposing protruding teeth, the stone
of a moss green tone with russet inclusions.
Length: 5 1/2 inches (14 cm)
Estimate: $3,000 / 5,000
Provenance:
24
Estimate: $4,000 / 6,000
Provenance:
Estimate: $3,000 / 5,000
Provenance:
7116
Two Jadeite Carvings
19th Century
The first a brush washer in the form of a lotus group
with leaves, flowers and pods, the well featuring a small
toad; the second a tripod lidded censer with beast-head
handles suspending loose rings.
Estimate: $3,000 / 5,000
Provenance:
7117
A Pair of Jadeite Lidded Containers
19th Century
Lot 7116
Lot 7117
Each carved with tapering sides featuring grooves, the
lid similarly decorated and with a lotus-form finial.
Estimate: $2,000 / 3,000
7118
Three Jadeite Carvings
Provenance:
Mr. Vito Giallo Collection, acquired from Sotheby’s New
York, November 20, 1984, sale 1108, lot 173.
19th/20th Century
The first a toggle in the form of a finger citron with leafy stems, the semi-translucent
stone of a mint-green tone; the second a
small model of a seated Guanyin with a mandorla, the translucent stone of an icy white
tone; the third a double fish hanging plaque,
the semi-translucent stone of a celadon hue.
Estimate: $6,000 / 8,000
Provenance:
Mr. Vito Giallo Collection, primarily acquired
from Sotheby’s New York during the
1960s-1980s.
Lot 7118
Lot 7119
Lot 7120
7119
A Jadeite Pendant
7120
Four Hardstone Carvings
19th Century
Qing Dynasty
The ruyi-form pendant with incised decorations of
flowers to each side, with two circular holes for suspension.
Comprising a soapstone figure of a chimera, an agate
pendant, a cylindrical jadeite container, and a soapstone seal.
Estimate: $1,500 / 2,000
Estimate: $2,000 / 3,000
Lot 7121
7121
A Rock Crystal Figural Carving
The standing bearded immortal depicted with a ram
resting beside him, wood stand.
Estimate: $1,500 / 2,000
25
Lot 7123
Lot 7122
20th Century
Carved with twin beast-head handles suspending
loose rings, the lid surmounted with a lion.
Estimate: $1,500 / 2,000
Lot 7127
Lot 7126
Lot 7125
7122
A Rock Crystal Tripod Censer
Lot 7124
7123
Two Rose Quartz Carvings
The first a flattened baluster vase flanked by a
female figure with child and a leafy pine tree, matching cover; the second a lidded cylindrical container
decorated with three elephants; both with fitted
wood stands.
Taller: 5 3/4 inches (14.6 cm) excluding stand
Estimate: $800 / 1,200
Provenance:
7124
Three Rock Crystal Covered Vases
19th/20th Century
The first of elongated baluster form with twin
chilong-form handles, the lower register with an
incised decoration of taotie masks above crashing
waves, the cover surmounted by a pair of lions, all
supported on a footed base; the second a small vase
carved with peach bearing branches throughout; the
third a small vase with two clambering chilong and
twin beast-head handles.
Estimate: $2,000 / 3,000
Provenance:
7125
Two Agate Carvings
The first a teapot carved with vertical ribbing to the
entire body and cover, bulbous finial and bamboo
form handle, with matching stand; the second a toggle featuring two lotus pods with leaves and a single
lotus blossom.
Taller: 4 inches (10.2 cm) excluding stand
Estimate: $1,200 / 1,800
7126
Four Hardstone Carvings
7127
A Rock Crystal Covered Vase
Qing Dynasty
Early 20th Century
The first a lime-green tourmaline figure of Liu Hai
and his three-legged toad standing on a rocky platform; the second a lapis lazuli beast-form incense
stick holder; the third an amethyst carving of a
crane, lingzhi fungus and peach.
Of rectangular baluster form with twin beast-head
handles suspending a loose ring, the cover surmounted by a crouching chilong.
Estimate: $3,000 / 5,000
Provenance:
Provenance:
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Estimate: $1,000 / 1,500
Lot 7128
7128
A Large Agate ‘Lotus’ Censer
Qing Dynasty
The circular vessel carved in the form of a lotus flower with overlapping petals to the exterior, with a pair of beast-head handles.
Estimate: $4,000 / 6,000
Provenance:
the 1960s-1980s.
7129
Two Smoky Quartz Carvings
Qing Dynasty
The first a brushwasher carved in the form of a peach, the handle carved as
leafy branch; the second a small covered vase with twin chilong handles.
Estimate: $2,000 / 3,000
Lot 7129
Provenance:
the 1960s-1980s.
7130
Three Hardstone Figural Carvings
Qing Dynasty
The first a turquoise figural group of a bearded man and a lady; the second a
rock crystal figure of a luohan supporting a large bowl on his shoulder; the
third a lapis lazuli carving of Liu Hai and his three-legged toad.
Estimate: $6,000 / 8,000
Provenance:
the 1960s-1980s.
Lot 7130
27
Lot 7131
7131
A Rare and Unusual Opal Boulder Carving
The exposed boulder featuring Shoulao holding a dragon cane and
accompanied by a crane, the reverse inscribed.
Estimate: $3,000 / 5,000
Provenance:
7132
Two Hardstone Carvings
The pink tourmaline toggle carved as two recumbent badgers; the
russet jade toggle carved as a fish.
Estimate: $1,200 / 1,800
Lot 7132
28
Snuff Bottles
Lot 7133
Lot 7135
Lot 7134
Lot 7139
Lot 7136
Lot 7141
Lot 7138
Lot 7137
Lot 7142
Lot 7140
7133
Two White Jade Snuff
Bottles
7134
A Jadeite Snuff Bottle
7135
A White Jade Snuff
Bottle
7136
A White Jade Snuff
Bottle
18th Century
Of compressed ovoid form,
with a flat lip and a concave
oval foot, the interior of the
bottle well-hollowed, the
stone of green and russet coloration, with a carnelian stopper.
18th/19th Century
18th/19th Century
Carved in low relief to depict
a man pulling a horse under
pine, the semi-translucent
stone of an even white tone,
with a red-colored stopper.
excluding stopper
The well-hollowed bottle of
compressed pear shape, with
a flat lip and a recessed oval
foot, the semi-translucent
stone of an even milky-white
tone.
Estimate: $2,000 / 3,000
Estimate: $1,500 / 2,000
Estimate: $3,000 / 5,000
7138
A Jade Snuff Bottle
7139
Two Jade Snuff Bottles
19th/20th Century
19th Century
7140
A White Jade Snuff
Bottle
7141
Two Mottled Jade Snuff
Bottles
7142
Two Jadeite Snuff
Bottles
Of flattened ovoid form,
carved with rolls of stylized
shou characters, with a green
glass stopper.
The semi-translucent white
nephrite bottle with a white
jadeite stopper; the green
jadeite bottle with a green
glass stopper.
18th/19th Century
Of tapering triangular form
with a flat lip and base, the
semi-translucent stone with
white inclusions.
The pebble-form bottle
carved with two chilong, the
compressed rectangular-form
bottle with twin chilong handles, each with a stopper.
Each of compressed form and
with flat lips, with matching
jadeite stoppers.
Estimate: $2,000 / 3,000
Estimate: $2,500 / 3,000
Estimate: $1,000 / 1,500
Both well-hollowed bottles of
pebble form, the larger one
displaying russet inclusions.
Estimate: $4,000 / 6,000
Estimate: $1,000 / 1,500
19th Century
7137
A Jade Snuff Bottle
Carved with a raised decoration of taotie masks and a
pair of beast-head handles,
with a jadeite stopper.
Estimate: $1,200 / 1,800
Estimate: $1,000 / 1,500
Provenance:
Mr. Vito Giallo Collection,
primarily acquired from
Sotheby’s New York during
the 1960s-1980s.
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Lot 7143
Lot 7144
Lot 7150
7143
Two Jadeite Snuff
Bottles
7144
Three Quartz Snuff
Bottles
The first carved to one side
to show a bat suspending a
coin, and bamboo to the
reverse; the second of compressed ovoid form; stoppers.
excluding stopper
Comprising two rutilated
quartz bottles, one carved
with a carp and a shrimp in a
pond; and one smoky quartz
bottle with a jadeite stopper.
excluding stopper
Estimate: $1,000 / 1,500
Estimate: $800 / 1,200
7148
Two Agate Snuff
Bottles
7149
Three Banded Agate
Snuff Bottles
Estimate: $800 / 1,200
30
19th/20th Century
Each of varying shapes, colors
and patterns, with stoppers.
Estimate: $2,000 / 3,000
Lot 7146
Lot 7149
Lot 7148
Lot 7147
Comprising a light amber colored bottle and a light beige
colored bottle, each with
broad shoulders and a
recessed base, stoppers.
excluding stopper
Lot 7145
Lot 7151
Lot 7152
7145
A Rutilated Quartz
Snuff Bottle
7146
An Amethyst Snuff
Bottle
7147
A Shadow Agate Snuff
Bottle
19th Century
19th/20th Century
19th Century
Of compressed circular form,
displaying thick black hair-like
inclusions, with a purple glass
stopper.
Depicting a boy attendant
serving a bearded scholar in a
garden, the stone of a light
purple tone, with an agate
stopper.
The well-hollowed bottle of
compress circular form,
carved in low relief to one
side to depict a butterfly in
flight.
excluding stopper
Estimate: $1,000 / 1,500
7150
Four Quartz Snuff
Bottles
Comprising two figural bottles, a compressed ovoid bottle, and a rutilated quartz bottle carved with a magpie
perched on a prunus tree,
each with a stopper.
Estimate: $1,000 / 1,200
Estimate: $1,200 / 1,800
Estimate: $2,000 / 3,000
7151
Three Quartz Snuff
Bottles
7152
A Rock Crystal Snuff
Bottle
19th/20th Century
19th Century
Comprising two rock crystal
bottles and a rutilated quartz
bottle, with stoppers.
The front side carved with
blossoming orchids issuing
from garden rocks, with a
banded agate stopper.
Estimate: $900 / 1,300
Estimate: $800 / 1,000
Lot 7154
Lot 7155
Lot 7153
Lot 7158
Lot 7160
Lot 7162
7153
A Smoky Quartz Snuff
Bottle
7154
Two Banded Agate
Snuff Bottles
19th Century
19th/20th Century
Of elongated rectangular
form, carved with twin beasthead handles, with a jadeite
stopper.
Comprising a white and black
bottle with a jadeite stopper;
and a white and beige bottle
with an orange glass stopper.
Estimate: $800 / 1,000
Estimate: $900 / 1,100
7158
Three Agate Snuff
Bottles
7159
Two Agate Snuff
Bottles
7160
Two Agate Snuff
Bottles
19th/20th Century
19th/20th Century
19th/20th Century
Each bottle displaying abstract
patterns of varying colors,
with stoppers.
The carnelian agate bottle
with a rock crystal stopper;
the caramelized agate bottle
with an onyx stopper.
The amber and white banded
agate bottle with an agate
stopper; the caramelized
agate bottle with a green
glass stopper.
Estimate: $900 / 1,000
Lot 7157
Lot 7159
Lot 7161
Estimate: $800 / 1,200
Lot 7156
7155
A Banded Agate Snuff
Bottle
7156
Two Agate Snuff
Bottles
7157
An Agate Snuff Bottle
Of compressed circular form
and with a flat lip, the stone
of white and caramel color
patterns, with a stopper.
The first of amber tone and
carved with five bats, with a
rose quartz stopper; the second of flattened ovoid shape,
yellow stopper.
Carved to one side to depict
a phoenix and peony, the
reverse incised with a lotus
pond scene, with a green
jadeite stopper.
Estimate: $800 / 1,200
Estimate: $800 / 1,000
7161
Three Agate Snuff
Bottles
7162
Five Quartz Snuff
Bottles
Estimate: $800 / 1,000
Estimate: $900 / 1,100
Each with a figure carved to
one side, with agate stoppers.
Estimate: $1,000 / 1,500
19th/20th Century
19th Century
Comprising three clear rock
crystal bottles and two rutilated quartz bottles.
Estimate: $2,000 / 3,000
Provenance:
the 1960s-1980s.
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7163
Four Agate Snuff
Bottles
Qing Dynasty
Comprising three banded
agate bottles, one featuring
two monkeys under a tree;
and a macaroni agate bottle;
each with a stopper.
Estimate: $1,500 / 2,000
Provenance:
the 1960s-1980s.
Lot 7163
Lot 7164
7164
Nine Snuff Bottles*
7165
An Amber Snuff Bottle
Qing Dynasty and Later
19th Century
Lot 7165
7166
Three Amber Snuff
Bottles
7167
The compressed ovoid form
bottle carved with twin
beast-head handles, the material of a swirling caramel
color, with a stopper.
excluding stopper
Of various materials including
enameled porcelain, enameled
metal, glass, lac-burgaute,
amber, mother-of-pearl, and
coral.
Featuring a chilong on rocks
with pine trees, the material
of a burnt deep amber color,
stopper.
excluding stopper
19th/20th Century
Estimate: $2,000 / 3,000
Estimate: $1,500 / 2,000
Estimate: $1,500 / 2,000
Each of pieced construction,
with one flanked by twin
beast-head handles, with stoppers.
Lot 7166
19th Century
Estimate: $1,500 / 2,000
Lot 7169
Lot 7167
Lot 7168
7171
Three Hardstone Snuff
Bottles
19th Century
Lot 7170
Lot 7171
7168
7169
19th Century
Late 19th Century
The compressed form bottle
of reticulated two-piece construction featuring birds and
flowers to each side, with a
carnelian stopper.
Carved in the form of a finger
citron group displaying the
fruits and stems, with a match
amber stopper.
Estimate: $1,500 / 2,000
Estimate: $1,500 / 2,000
7170
Two Molded Gourd
Snuff Bottles
The first carved with an
enclosed landscape scene to
each side, the base bearing a
two-character mark; the second
of compressed circular form
featuring a figure to one side
and a four-character inscription
to the other, also bearing a
two-character mark to the
base; each with a stopper.
Estimate: $1,000 / 1,500
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The jasper bottle with one
side carved with a grasshopper on cabbage leaves, the
reverse depicting a cat gazing
at two butterflies and flanked
by two millet stalks, glued to
a carved and polychromed
stand, pink stopper; the lapis
lazuli bottle carved to one
side with a cat leaping at a
butterfly, with matching stopper; the tourmaline bottle
carved in the form of a finger
citron, the translucent gemstone of a faint sky-blue color,
yellow stopper.
Estimate: $4,000 / 6,000
Provenance:
the 1960s-1980s.
Lot 7172
7172
An Inside-Painted
Glass Snuff Bottle
Signed Zhou Leyuan, Republic
Period
Depicting a landscape scene
to each side, one with two
figures approaching a building,
the other of two men in a
raft, inscribed, signed and with
a seal.
Estimate: $1,000 / 1,500
Lot 7173
Lot 7174
Lot 7179
Lot 7178
Lot 7175
Lot 7180
Lot 7176
Lot 7177
Lot 7181
Lot 7182
7173
Two Inside-Painted
Snuff Bottles
7174
An Inside-Painted Rock
Crystal Snuff Bottle
7175
An Inside-Painted
Glass Snuff Bottle
7176
An Inside-Painted
Glass Snuff Bottle
7177
An Inside-Painted
Glass Snuff Bottle
20th Century
Dated by Inscription to 1910
With one side displaying a
portrait of a male figure, the
reverse inscribed, dated,
signed and with a seal, with a
stopper.
Signed Sun Xingwu, Dated by
inscription to 1898
Signed Duo Chengyun, Dated by
Inscription to 1979
20th Century
The rock crystal bottle decorated with various figures to
both sides, one side inscribed,
dated, signed Liu Ziyi and
with an artist’s seal; the glass
bottle decorated with a continuos landscape scene featuring figures and dwellings, with
a signature reading Yi Shi and
with a seal; both with stoppers.
excluding stopper
Decorated with insects and
goldfish to one side, and a
cicada hanging from a willow
tree to the reverse, one side
inscribed, dated, signed and
with an artist’s seal, with a
green jadeite stopper.
Depicting two Pekingese dogs
to one side and two white
rabbits to the other, each
inscribed, dated, signed and
with an artist seal.
excluding stopper
Depicting two landscape
scenes, one with a fisherman
by the banks of a river and
the other with a boy herding
two water buffalos, dated and
signed, with a carnelian stopper.
Estimate: $1,000 / 1,500
Estimate: $800 / 1,200
Estimate: $2,000 / 3,000
Estimate: $1,000 / 1,500
Estimate: $1,000 / 1,500
7178
Two OverlaidDecorated Glass Snuff
Bottles
7179
An Overlaid Glass
Snuff Bottle
7180
A Famille Rose
Porcelain Snuff Bottle
7181
An Enameled Yixing
Ware Snuff Bottle
7182
A Fine Cameo Agate
Snuff Bottle
19th Century
19th Century
Late Qing Dynasty
19th Century
19th Century
The delicately carved sky-blue
and aubergine overlay against
a white glass ground depicting
the eight Daoist emblems,
with a stopper.
With enamel applied to the
molded decoration featuring
a dragon swimming and surrounded by various figures,
the recessed base bearing a
Qianlong four-character mark,
with a turquoise stone stopper.
Of compressed pear shape
with a flat lip and recessed
base, both sides decorated
with various flowers and butterflies, with a hardstone
stopper.
The gourd form bottle cleverly carved utilizing the darker
brown markings with leafy
foliage and a grasshopper surrounding a short inscription,
signed Runzhi.
Estimate: $800 / 1,000
Estimate: $5,000 / 7,000
The first with carved blue
overlay depicting various
antiques to both sides, with
twin chilong handles; the second with carved aubergine
and white overlay depicting
two scholars in a garden;
stoppers.
Estimate: $2,000 / 3,000
Estimate: $800 / 1,200
Estimate: $800 / 1,200
Provenance:
Bonhams, San Francisco, June
19, 2012, lot 6040.
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Chinese Glass
7185
A Pink-Overlaid Snowstorm
Glass Vase
18th Century
Of meiping form, carved with four sinuous dragons amidst scrolling leafy
lotus tendrils above a lappet band and
below a ruyi-head band.
Estimate: $5,000 / 7,000
Provenance:
From the Ina and Sandford Gadient
Collection of Chinese Glass.
7186
A Multicolor OverlayDecorated Snowstorm Glass
Vase
Qianlong Mark
The globular body rising to a short
thick neck decorated with a blue lappet border, the translucent speckled
ground overlaid with red, green, purple and blue glass depicting five sinuous chilong dragons amidst cloud florets, a four-character mark carved to
the base.
Estimate: $3,000 / 5,000
Provenance:
Lot 7187
7187
An Opaque Blue-Overlaid
Pink Glass Vase
7188
A Pair of Clair-de-Lune Glass
Bottle Vases
Qing Dynasty
18th Century
The squared baluster form rising to a
flaring cylindrical neck, of opaque pink
glass with blue overlay decorations
depicting blooming trees and plants to
each side panel, the neck with a leaf
lappet border, raised upon a blue
square base.
Each with a globular body rising to a
tall, thick cylindrical neck, raised upon
a slightly spreading foot with a
recessed base, the opaque glass of a
pale sky-blue.
Height: 12 1/8 inches (30.8 cm) each
Estimate: $6,000 / 8,000
Provenance:
Provenance:
Lot 7188
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Lot 7186
Lot 7185
Estimate: $12,000 / 16,000
7189
A Pair of Translucent Blue
Glass Bottle Vases
Qianlong Marks and Period
Each of a thick-walled and compressed
globular body, raised on a circular foot
with recessed base and surmounted
by a tall cylindrical neck, the glass of a
deep sapphire-blue tone.
Height: 10 inches (25.4 cm) each
Estimate: $4,000 / 6,000
Provenance:
Mr. Vito Giallo Collection, primarily
acquired from Sotheby’s New York
during the 1960s-1980s.
Lot 7189
7190
A Pair of Pink Glass Bottle Vases
Qianlong Marks and Period
Each vase of a compressed, globular body that rises
to a tall, cylindrical neck, and supported on a low,
spreading foot, the opaque glass of an even,
creamy-pink color.
Estimate: $4,000 / 6,000
Provenance:
7191
An Opaque Pink Glass Bottle Vase
18th/19th Century
The compressed globular body raised on a slightly
flared foot and surmounted by a tall, thick-walled
cylindrical neck.
Lot 7191
Lot 7190
Estimate: $2,000 / 3,000
Lot 7195
Lot 7193
Lot 7192
Lot 7194
7192
An Overlay-Decorated Blue
and White Glass Tripod
Censer
7193
Two Green-Overlaid Glass
Vessels
7194
An Overlay-Decorated White
Glass Snuff Bottle
19th/20th Century
19th/20th Century
18th/19th Century
The first a globular jar decorated with
four stylized circular-form longevity
characters, the overlaid glass of a
lime-green tone; the second a baluster
vase decorated with birds and flowers,
the overlaid glass of a teal-green tone.
Of flattened double gourd form, the
opaque white ground decorated with
leafy double gourds, bats and insects
carved from colorful glass, with a yellow stopper featuring leaves.
The bulbous form of translucent blue
glass with a thin layer of white to the
interior, the body decorated with
three chilong dragons carved in yellow
and pink glass, all raised upon tapered
tripod feet with arched handles issuing
from the rim.
Height: 5 1/2 inches (14 cm) including
handles
Estimate: $5,000 / 7,000
Provenance:
Estimate: $800 / 1,200
Provenance:
Mr. Vito Giallo Collection, primarily
acquired from Sotheby’s New York
7195
A Gilt-Painted Blue Glass
Figure of a Yogi
The bearded figure shown seated in
dhyanasana on a rectangular base and
with hands in dynana mudra, the glass
of teal-blue tone.
Estimate: $800 / 1,200
Estimate: $3,000 / 5,000
Provenance:
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Works of Art
7196
A Gilt-Metal Snuff Box
Qing Dynasty
The compressed oval shape container featuring a landscape cartouche to the
lid and base, with four further cartouches of birds and flowers.
Estimate: $1,000 / 1,500
Provenance:
Mr. Vito Giallo Collection, primarily acquired from Sotheby’s New York
7197
A Chinese Export Silver Platter
Early 20th Century
Lot 7196
The circular presentation dishware with bamboo borders, the center with
two sinuous dragons amidst clouds and a monogram, marked on the reverse.
Diameter: 12 5/8 inches (32.1 cm); Weight: 25.74 troy ounces (802 g)
Estimate: $2,500 / 3,000
7198
A Large Chinese Export Silver Platter
Early 20th Century
The circular presentation dishware with dragon border, the center with four
sinuous dragons amidst clouds and a monogram, marked on the reverse.
Diameter: 17 1/2 inches (44.5 cm); Weight: 50.13 troy ounces (1564 g)
Estimate: $2,500 / 3,000
7199
Two Chinese Export Silver Boxes
Republic Period
The first of gourd-form with the hinged lid featuring decorations of four
Daoist immortals below a butterfly, a two-character maker’s mark to the
base; the second a circular box with figural and floral decorations to the lid,
the box featuring six shaped reserves of figures in combat, a two-character
maker’s mark to the base.
Widest: 5 inches (12.7 cm); Total Weight: 15 1/10 ounces (429 g)
Lot 7197
Lot 7198
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Estimate: $3,000 / 5,000
Lot 7199
7200
A Group of Chinese Export Silver
Drinkwares
Late 19th/Early 20th Century
Comprising six silver-mounted spirit decanters
and stoppers, and two cruets, all decorated
with bamboo, marked sterling silver.
Estimate: $3,000 / 5,000
7201
Four Chinese Export Silver
Drinkwares
Early 20th Century
Comprising two cocktail shakers and two
serving cups, each decorated with a dragon
motif.
Tallest: 9 7/8 inches (25 cm); Total Weight: 31 1/4
ounces (886.5 g)
Estimate: $1,500 / 2,000
7202
A Pair of Chinese Export Silver
Lidded Containers
Early 20th Century
Possibly for serving sugar, each of compressed
globular form decorated with scrolling and
plantain leaf bands featuring twin handles, the
lid decorated with floral designs and surmounted by a lion-form finial, with a fitted
removable serving dish, marks to the base of
the container and dish.
Height: 5 1/8 inches (13 cm) each; Total Weight:
27 1/3 ounces (777 g)
Estimate: $2,000 / 3,000
Lot 7200
Lot 7201
Lot 7202
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Lot 7204
Lot 7203
7203
A Five-Piece Chinese Export Sterling Coffee Service
7204
A Five-Piece Chinese Export Silver Service Set
Republic Period
Republic Period
Comprising a coffee pot, creamer, sugar, tongs and tray, each with
dragon decoration, stamped marks to the bases, accompanied by
original fitted boxes.
Width: 20 1/4 inches 51.4 cm) of tray; Total Weight: 95 1/2 ounces
(2710 g)
Comprising a coffee pot, teapot, sugar, creamer and quatrefoil-form
handled and footed tray, each with a lobbed panel container with
incised decoration of lotus, orchid, prunus, peony, hibiscus and magnolia, except for the tray which features a regal phoenix amidst
flowers and fungi, the borders with cartouches containing pine,
prunus, peony or orchid, all with stamped marks.
Width 16 3/8 inches (41.6 cm) of tray; Total Weight: 75 1/10 ounces
(2130 g)
Estimate: $4,000 / 6,000
Estimate: $4,000 / 6,000
Provenance:
Mr. and Mrs. (Josefine) Ernst Hermann Thunig, acquired in Shanghai
during the 1930s and 1940s, and thence by descent within the family to the current owner.
Lot 7206
Lot 7207
Lot 7205
7205
A Gilt-Silver Filigree Vase
Late Qing/Republic
Of globular shape on a spreading foot, decorated
with a filigree dragon wrapped around the neck of
the vase in pursuit of a flaming pearl, with further filigree flowers and butterflies, displaying four cartouches containing bamboo, orchids, prunus and
chrysanthemums.
Estimate: $2,000 / 3,000
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7206
A Gilt-Silver Bracelet
7207
A Gilt-Silver Covered Box
Decorated to the exterior with bats and longevity
medallions amongst scrolling clouds.
Width: 3 1/8 inches (8 cm);Weight: 3 2/5 ounces (98.5 g)
The gourd-form container decorated with associated leaves, vines, flowers and fruits all issuing from
one end of the cover and container, the leaves and
flowers decorated with enamel.
Length: 4 1/4 inches (10.8 cm); Total Weight: 7 ounces
(199 g)
Estimate: $2,000 / 3,000
Estimate: $4,000 / 6,000
Lot 7209
7208
A Gilt-Metal Ruyi Scepter
With delicate scrolling filigree overlaid in turquoise, lapis, and other semiprecious
stones to form reserves of peaches, two shou medallions, and butterfly and flower motifs, the head featuring five bats surrounding a peach branch.
Length: 12 inches (30.5 cm)
Estimate: $7,000 / 9,000
7209
A Small Parcel-Gilt Silver Lidded Tripod Vessel
Raised on three cabriole legs and with a pair of bail handles, the vessel encircled
by a raised band of chilong, repeated twice to the domed cover with three rings.
Width: 2 3/4 inches (7 cm)
Estimate: $3,000 / 5000
7210
A Pair of Gilt-Silver Enameled Buddhist Lions
20th Century
Each of filigree construction with one foot resting on a ball, the movable head,
mane and tail painted with vibrant enamels.
Estimate: $1,000 / 1,500
Lot 7210
Lot 7208
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7211
A Chinese Silver Teapot
Dated by Inscription to 1953
Of typical form with a short spout, the body depicting a battle
scene from the novel ‘Romance of the Three Kingdoms’ and with
an inscription, the arched handle with floral decoration, the cover
incised with four Daoist emblems and an eight-petal chrysanthemum finial, the base stamped with a maker’s mark.
Height: 7 1/4 inches (18.4 cm) overall; Total Weight: 20 7/10 ounces
(587.5 g)
Estimate: $5,000 / 7,000
7212
A Bronze Wine Vessel
Han Dynasty
The broad, pear-shaped body raised on a spreading foot with
upright sides, with a pair of mask handles on the shoulder suspending loose rings and a loop handle.
Estimate: $2,000 / 3,000
7213
A Small Bronze Hu
Han Dynasty
With two loose-ring handles and a lipped rim, accompanied by a
Japanese fitted wood box.
Estimate: $1,000 / 1,500
7214
A Small Bronze Figure of Buddha
Northern Wei
Lot 7211
Shown standing with hands held in abhaya mudra.
Estimate: $1,000 / 1,500
Provenance:
Phineas Schwartz Collection.
Lot 7212
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Lot 7213
Lot 7214
Lot 7216
Lot 7215
Lot 7217
Lot 7219
Lot 7218
7215
An Unusual Cast Bronze Model of
Guanyin
Early Ming Dynasty
Modeled wearing long robes and sitting on the back
of a recumbent Buddhist lion, both hands holding a
bowl in his lap, all on a footed platform.
Height: 13 inches (33 cm) approximately
Estimate: $4,000 / 6,000
Note: Although Guanyin has been depicted as a female
figure as early as the 12th century, it was still fairly common to represent the ‘Buddha of the present’ as a man
during the early part of the Ming dynasty.
7216
A Cast Iron Guardian Figure
The standing male figure shown holding a long rectangular element, one hand held out with palm facing
forward, wearing simple robes and a matching hat,
attached to a cloth-wrapped stand.
Height: 10 3/4 inches (27.3 cm) overall
Estimate: $1,000 / 1,500
Provenance:
7217
A Bronze Buddhist Lion Censer
Ming Dynasty
The beast seated with its left paw raised on a brocade ball, its scrolling tail flicked upwards, the head
detaches forming the cover for the hollow body
interior, with fitted wood stand.
Estimate: $2,000 / 3,000
Provenance:
7218
A Bronze Tripod Censer
7219
A Bronze Tripod Censer
The compressed globular censer supported by three beast-head
feet, sides cast with two lion-head handles below the waisted neck,
the base cast with a raised Qianlong four-character mark.
The compressed globular censer supported by three short tapering
feet, the sides cast with two upright loop handles above the slightly
waisted neck, the base cast with an apocryphal raised Xuande
six-character mark.
Diameter: 4 3/4 inches (12 cm)
Estimate: $4,000 / 6,000
Estimate: $3,000 / 5,000
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7220
A Gilt-Splashed Bronze Vase
17th/18th Century
The gu-form ritual vessel cast around the midsection with two parallel bands, the recessed
base with a twelve-character apocryphal Xuande
mark.
Estimate: $15,000 / 20,000
Provenance:
1960s-1980s.
Lot 7220
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7221
A Gilt-Splashed Bronze Censer
17th/18th Century
Of compressed globular form with a pair of handles formed as
lion heads, the recessed base with a six-character apocryphal
Xuande mark.
Estimate: $20,000 / 30,000
Provenance:
Lot 7221
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Lot 7222
7222
A Group of Gilt-Bronze Accessories
Qing Dynasty
Comprising a twin-sectioned belt buckle, a dragon-form belt hook and seven buttons with floral
designs.
Estimate: $1,500 / 2,000
7223
A Bronze Figure of a Luohan
18th Century
The arhat with serene face and downcast eyes seated in meditation upon an elephant, the borders of
the arhat’s robes and the animal’s harness all delicately incised.
Lot 7223
Estimate: $3,000 / 5,000
7224
A Large Collection of Chinese Bronze
Coins
Qing Dynasty
Comprising approximately 435 coins from various
reign periods during the Qing Dynasty including
Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong.
Estimate: $2,000 / 3,000
Provenance:
Private Collection, San Francisco.
Lot 7224
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Lot 7225
7225
A Small Bronze Censer
Of compressed globular form flanked by a pair
of dragon-head handles.
Estimate: $1,000 / 1,500
7226
A Small Bronze Vase
17th Century
Of pear shape with a pair of coiling chilong to
the slender neck below a flaring mouth, all on a
spreading foot.
Estimate: $1,000 / 1,500
Lot 7227
Lot 7226
Lot 7229
Lot 7228
7227
A Bronze Cong-Form Vase
7228
A Small Bronze Vase
7229
A Bronze Vase
17th Century
Qing Dynasty
Kangxi Period
Cast with taotie masks to each side, a pair of ring
handles below the short flaring neck and above a
slightly spreading foot.
Of pear shape with a slender neck, decorated with
four leaf-shaped panels containing archaistic decorations.
Of pear shape with a pair of lion-head handles to
the slender flaring neck, raised on a tripod base.
Estimate: $1,000 / 1,500
Estimate: $800 / 1,200
Estimate: $2,000 / 3,000
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723
A Pewter-Encased Yixing Teapot and Cover
Signed Fan Luzeng, Daoguang Period
Of beehive shape with ‘c’-scroll handle and short tapering
spout partly inset with jade, the flat cover with a plain jade
finial, incised around the body on one side with a poetic
inscription, the other with flowers, the mark of the maker,
Fan Luzeng, applied to the base of the interior.
Fan Luzeng is famous for the pewter-cased teapots he produced during the Daoguang period (1821-1850). His works
were commonly incised by scholars with poems or other scholar’s taste subjects.
Estimate: $1,200 / 1,500
Lot 7230
7231
A Southeast Asian Bronze Drum
Cast with a raised linear decoration centered by a star motif, with four finials.
19 x 26 x 26 inches (48 x 66 x 66 cm)
Estimate: $3,000 / 5,000
7232
A Nepalese Gilt-Bronze Figure of
Vishnu
17th Century
The four-armed figure standing on a circular
lotus base, holding a conch and disk in his
upper hands and a lotus bud and mace in
his lower hands, clad in a long dhoti secured
with a festooned belt, with necklaces and
the upavita encircling the torso, crowned
with a foliate tiara and backed by a flaming
halo.
Estimate: $1,500 / 2,000
Lot 7231
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Provenance:
1960s-1980s.
Lot 7232
7233
A Large Gilt-Bronze Phurba
With a tripartite blade issuing from between the
fangs of a makara and adorned with sinuous serpents, the central section with a double-lotus knob
between ‘endless knots’, the three-headed
Dharmapala terminal with ferocious expressions
framed by skull tiaras rising to a vajra finial; designed
in two pieces, accompanied by a custom stand.
Height: 33 inches (83.9 cm) approximately
Estimate: $3,000 / 5,000
7234
A Tibetan Gilt-Bronze Figure of
Vajrasattva
Cast seated in dhyanasana on a double-lotus base,
the left hand holding a bell and the right hand holding a vajra, wearing an elaborate diadem and beaded
necklaces.
Lot 7233
Lot 7234
Estimate: $1,500 / 2,000
7235
A Tibetan Gilt-Bronze Figure of
Maitreya
Standing on a lotus base with beaded rims while
wearing a flowing dhoti with incised hems, adorned
with various ornaments, the face with heavy-lidded
eyes centered by a raised urna and surmounted by
a jeweled tiara, holding a lotus blossom.
Estimate: $1,200 / 1,800
7236
A Gilt-Bronze Figure of Amitayus
Cast seated in dhyanasana with hands held in dhyana mudra on a double-lotus pedestal, wearing long
open robes adorned with elaborate jewelry and a
headdress.
Estimate: $2,000 / 3,000
Provenance:
Private Collection, Pennsylvania.
Lot 7235
Lot 7236
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7237
A Small Gilt-Bronze Figure of
Avalokiteshvara
Qing Dynasty
Shown seated in dhyanasana with right
hand raised in vitarka mudra, and left
hand lowered, clad in loosely draped
robes incised with floral scrolls and left
open at the chest above the sash-tied
dhoti.
Estimate: $1,000 / 1,500
Provenance:
7238
A Tibetan Silver Ewer
Lot 7237
The slender baluster shaped body with
shaped burlwood panels on both sides,
the tapering spout with dragon head
terminal, the handle in the form of a
dragon.
Lot 7238
Estimate: $3,000 / 4,000
Lot 7240
Lot 7239
7239
A Tibetan Silver Ewer
7240
A Pair of Cloisonné Enamel Vases
20th Century
Republic Period
The foot, neck and cover decorated with silver waves and lobed medallions on
each side of the body showing two reticulated jade plaques.
Each of globular form with a tall neck, decorated throughout with flowers and
auspicious symbols.
Estimate: $2,000 / 3,000
Estimate: $2,000 / 3,000
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Lot 7243
Lot 7242
Lot 7241
Lot 7245
Lot 7244
7241
A Cloisonné Enamel Rouleau Vase
7242
A Cloisonné Enamel Rouleau Vase
7243
A Pair of Cloisonné Enamel Lobed Vases
19th Century
19th Century
20th Century
Decorated with several foliated turquoise-ground
reserves enclosing playful lions in tones of blue,
green and red, all against an iron-red key-fret
ground.
The tall elongated body and waisted neck decorated
with confronting dragons centering a flaming pearl,
all above waves and between decorative bands, the
shoulder with bats amongst clouds.
Each with an elegant pear form rising to a flaring
rim, the lobed panels decorated in primarily blue
and white enamel with stylized lotus scrolls and bats
entwining and encircling character medallions.
Estimate: $2,000 / 3,000
Estimate: $1,200 / 1,800
Estimate: $3,000 / 5,000
Provenance:
Reynold Tom Collection, mostly acquired during the
1970s and 1980s.
7244
Two Pairs of Cloisonné Enamel Bird-Form Censers
Each shown in a recumbent position with the rounded wings
designed as removable covers, the first pair depicting cranes with a
deep-red ground, the second a pair of turquoise-ground geese with
bulbous foreheads.
7245
A Pair of Cloisonné Enamel Roosters
20th Century
Each decorated in red, blue, green, yellow and pink enamel, shown
standing on a base depicting grass and flowers with its left foot
perched on a tree stump.
Estimate: $2,000 / 3,000
Estimate: $2,000 / 3,000
Provenance:
Reynold Tom Collection, mostly acquired during the 1970s and 1980s.
Provenance:
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Lot 7246
7246
A Large Pair of Cloisonné Enamel Buddhist Lions
20th Century
The lions seated on their rear haunches, the lion’s front paw raised over a ball
and the lioness’s front paw raised over a playful cub, the jaws open revealing
teeth, the body decorated with mythical beasts amidst foliage, each atop a
stepped rectangular base with geometric patterns.
34 x 27 x 19 1/2 inches (86.4 x 78.6 x 49.5 cm) each approximately
Estimate: $8,000 / 12,000
Lot 7246 detail
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Lot 7246 detail
Lot 7248
Lot 7247
Lot 7249
Lot 7250
7247
A Pair of Cloisonné Enamel Vases
7248
A Large Cloisonné Enamel Lidded Container
Republic Period
Republic Period
Of baluster shape, each decorated with lotus scrolls and geometric bands against
a turquoise ground.
Height: 10 inches (25.4 cm) each
The domed lid decorated with bats and blossoming peach branches supporting
large clusters of fruit against a vibrant yellow ground, the overall design extending to the lower section, the interior enameled turquoise.
Estimate: $1,000 / 1,500
Estimate: $1,200 / 1,800
7249
A Pair of Massive Cloisonné Enamel Vases
7250
A Pair of Cloisonné Enamel Double Gourd Covered Vases
20th Century
Qianlong Marks
Each of baluster form with a flaring neck, decorated throughout with a profusion
of flowers separated by decorative bands.
Each decorated with the eight Daoist emblems, longevity medallions, bats and
scrolling clouds on a turquoise ground, the cover issuing a gilt-painted gourd
vine finial featuring leaves, tendrils, flowers and fruits which wrap around the
container, the base bearing a four-character mark.
Estimate: $7,000 / 9,000
Estimate: $10,000 / 15,000
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Lot 7251
7251
An Amber Necklace
Comprising seventy-seven graduated beads ranging in shapes and
sizes, each of a warm honey tone with inclusions.
Length: 49 inches (124.5 cm) overall; Diameter: 8-17 mm approximately
Estimate: $1,000 / 1,500
Lot 7252
7252
A Group of Amber Carvings
Qing Dynasty
Comprising a figure of a star god, a large toggle featuring a group
of flowers with a gilt metal mount depicting prunus and bamboo,
two rings, and five pebble-form beads.
Estimate: $4,000 / 6,000
Provenance:
7253
Three Amber Carvings
Qing Dynasty
Comprising a small lotus leaf-form dish with chilong clambering
towards to edge of the lotus leaf; a peach-form wine cup with the
leafy branch carved at the support; and a small circular perforated
incense carrying case carved with a dense floral design.
Estimate: $5,000 / 7,000
Provenance:
Lot 7253
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7254
A Carved Amber Toggle
Qing Dynasty
Carved to one side to depict the legendary character Wu Song slaying the
tiger, the reverse with a figure on a raft.
Estimate: $1,000 / 1,500
7255
A Carved Amber Beaded Necklace
17th/18th Century
Consisting of 30 graduated beads each carved in form of the head of a luohan,
the carved beads divided by smaller circular beads, with a large pendant in the
form of a seated Budai, the amber of a rich honey tone.
Estimate: $6,000 / 8,000
Provenance:
Collection of Thomas B. Kitson (1876-1959), London.
Sac Freres Amber, London, 11th May 1987.
7256
An Amber Necklace
With graduated beads of butter scotch tone.
Length: 33 1/2 inches (85 cm) approximately
Estimate: $1,000 / 1,500
Lot 7254
Lot 7255
Lot 7256
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7257
A Collection of Various Buddhist Prayer Beads*
19th Century and Later
Comprising a necklace strung with 108 bodhi seed beads and four coral beads;
another necklace strung with 108 bodhi seed beads; amber prayer beads; two
strands of glass prayer beads; and coral prayer beads.
Estimate: $2,000 / 3,000
Provenance:
Lot 7257
7258
Five Coral Carvings and a Walrus
Ivory Carving*
Qing Dynasty
Comprising one carving of a lady with a phoenix;
one depicting the lunar deity Chang’e riding a
deer and holding a flute with the jade rabbit by
her side; one female figure dressed in flowing
robes and holding a flowering branch in her left
hand and a tray in her right hand; one carving of
two children riding a phoenix; one dragon head
form branch; and one walrus ivory carving a of a
Ming dynasty official depicted holding a tablet.
Estimate: $8,000 / 12,000
Provenance:
1960s-1980s.
Lot 7258
7259
A Group of Small Coral Carvings*
20th Century
Comprising nine figures and two dogs, of various colors ranging from
white to salmon red.
Estimate: $1,000 / 1,500
Provenance:
Bay Area Private Estate Collection. Acquired in Hong Kong during the
1960s and 1970s, and thence by decent within the family to the current
owner.
Lot 7259
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7260
A Carved Bamboo Brush Pot
The cylindrical body well carved on the exterior with a countryside dwelling
scene surrounded by bamboo and pine, the reverse inscribed, signed, dated
and with a seal, with three short feet.
Estimate: $8,000 / 12,000
7261
A Painted Stone Table Screen
Qing Dynasty
Depicting several dwellings nestled in rolling hills near a body of water,
inscribed, dated to gengshen year, signed Hong Sheng, and with a seal, with
hardwood frame and stand.
Estimate: $3,000 / 5,000
Lot 7260
Lot 7262
7262
A Boxwood Figure of Bodhidharma
18th Century
The bearded Buddhist patriarch with a traveler’s hat tied to a
gnarled branch held over his shoulder.
Estimate: $4,000 / 6,000
Lot 7261
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7263
A Boxwood Figural Group
18th/19th Century
Carved as a scholarly figure seated on rock bench and surrounded with auspicious objects including a crane, deer, pine and lingzhi.
Estimate: $4,000 / 6,000
7264
A Bamboo Carving of a Daoist Deity
Qing Dynasty
The serene figure, Lu Dongbin, delicately depicted with his small gourd while
holding a fly whisk and wearing a sword on his back, shown with a demon servant holding a tray of wine and a cup.
Estimate: $6,000 / 8,000
7265
A Bamboo Carving of the ‘Double Happiness’ Twins
Qing Dynasty
Carved as the pair of playful twins, one holding a peach the other with a bat.
Estimate: $3,000 / 5,000
7266
A Bamboo Carving of Shoulao and Boy
Qing Dynasty
Lot 7263
The standing immortal carved wearing long flowing robes, with a smiling and
benevolent expression on his face, holding a gnarled fruiting branch of peaches
in one hand and stroking his long beard with the other, with a boy at his side
who is presenting him with a large peach.
Estimate: $5,000 / 7,000
Lot 7264
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Lot 7265
Lot 7266
Lot 7268
Lot 7267
7267
A Huanghuali Birdcage
Constructed of thin strips of hardwood joined by wider sections
forming the rectangular frame with hinged doors, raised on four
short feet, with a dragon-form hanger above the architectural top.
35 x 20 x 20 inches (89 x 51 x 51 cm)
Estimate: $2,000 / 3,000
7268
Two Hardwood Containers
Qing Dynasty
The first a huanghuali scale chest comprising two drawers; the
second a hinged rosewood document box.
Estimate: $1,000 / 1,500
7269
A Cinnabar Lacquer Footed Tray
19th Century
Decorated with a scene of figures amongst trees and rockwork, bordered by scrolling peonies and floral cartouches.
Estimate: $1,000 / 1,500
Lot 7269
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7270
A Cinnabar Lacquer Table Screen
19th Century
The rectangular-sectioned panel skillfully carved to the
front in layered relief depicting figures at leisure in a lush
pavilion garden with a mountain view in distance, framed
by a raised border carved with flowers and leafy scrolls,
the matching easel stand constructed en suite and
densely decorated with leafy lotus and dragon patterns.
Estimate: $10,000 / 15,000
Lot 7270
Lot 7270 detail
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Lot 7270 detail
Lot 7271
Lot 7272
7271
Two Cinnabar Lacquer Lidded
Containers
7272
A Cinnabar Lacquer Circular Box and
Cover
7273
A Large Cinnabar Lacquer Circular Box
and Cover
19th Century
19th Century
Late Qing Dynasty
The first of rectangular form, the lid featuring three
figures within a landscape, the sides carved with a
diamond diaper pattern; the second of small circular
form, the lid featuring a scholar under a tree.
The cover carved with two scholars and their attendants amidst rocks and vegetation with a gnarled
pine tree, enclosed within a key-fret border, all
reserved on a dense diaper ground with a band of
lappets encircling the foot.
The shaped box carved deeply through the lacquer,
the cover with an intricate pattern of figures in a
pine-strewn mountainous river-landscape, the sides
of the cover and the box carved with stylized dragons chasing a flaming pearl against lotus scrolls.
Diameter: 16 inches (40.7 cm)
Estimate: $1,000 / 1,500
Estimate: $6,000 / 8,000
Estimate: $1,000 / 1,500
Provenance:
Lot 7273
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Lot 7274
7274
A Cinnabar Lacquer Tiered Box
and Cover
7275
A Cinnabar Lacquer Double
Lozenge Shaped Box and Cover
18th/19th Century
18th Century
Of square form comprising a stack of
four boxes, the cover carved with the
Budai monk and a crane, the vertical
sides of the cover decorated with peony
blossoms, the foot decorated with a band
of lotus petals.
Carved with the Daoist immortal, Lu
Dongbin, gazing at the crescent moon,
the sides with scrolling lotus design.
Estimate: $1,000 / 1,500
Estimate: $3,000 / 5,000
Provenance:
7276
A Cinnabar Lacquer Brush
Handle and Cover
7277
A Cinnabar Lacquer ScrollForm Box
Ming Dynasty
Qing Dynasty
The tubular body decorated with a dense
design of peony blossoms and leaves, the
cover decorated en suite and surmounted by a lion; along with four carved walnut shell decorations.
Carved in relief to resemble a rolled up
scroll, the exterior displaying auspicious
symbols including bats, peony and swastikas, with carved title slip, the interior
covered in black lacquer.
Estimate: $1,500 / 2,000
Estimate: $3,000 / 5,000
Lot 7275
Lot 7276
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Lot 7277
Lot 7278
Lot 7279
7278
A Chinese Leather and Shagreen Saddle
19th Century
With brass mounts decorated with flowers in cloisonnÈ enamel,
attached to a wood display stand.
Length: 17 inches (43.2 cm) approximately
Estimate: $2,000 / 3,000
7279
A Four-Piece Chinese Export Sterling Tea and
Coffee Service
Early 20th Century
Each with bamboo-form handles, the rounded sides with simulated
shagreen ground chased with further bamboo, the set comprising a
coffee pot, a teapot, a cream jug and a sugar bowl, also accompanied by an associated hardwood tray with a pair of sterling handles,
each with the mark of Fu Hing.
Height: 8 5/8 inches (21.9 cm) of coffee pot; Total weight: 52 3/8 ounces (1.427 kg) excluding tray
Estimate: $3,000 / 5,000
7280
A Gilt-Bronze Figure of Medicine Buddha
Seated in dhyanasana on a double-lotus base, wearing a sanghati
with incised borders falling in elegant pleats at his ankles and over
his left shoulder, the tightly coiled hair rising over the ushnisha and
topped by a finial.
Estimate: $2,000 / 3,000
Provenance:
Lot 7280
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Furniture
Lot 7285
7285
A Huanghuali Veneered Altar Coffer
19th Century
The three-board top set into a mitered, mortise and tenoned
frame with everted flanges, over shaped spandrels flanking three
drawers above a double door.
34 1/2 x 63 x 23 1/8 inches (87.6 x 160 x 58.7 cm) approximately
Estimate: $20,000 / 30,000
Provenance:
Walnut Creek Estate.
7286
A Huali Folding Stool
With two pairs of hinged legs of circular section joined at the
midpoint by a chrysanthemum-shaped pin, the front legs connected to a footrest with a cusped apron and two feet applied with an
interlocking triple lozenge and corner mounts in brass, the top
and bottom horizontal members of rectangular section, the upper
members carved with a pair of striding chilong confronting Cscrolls.
21 x 23 1/2 x 27 inches (53.3 x 59.7 x 68.6 cm)
Estimate: $4,000 / 6,000
Lot 7286
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Provenance:
San Francisco Private Collection.
7287
A Huanghuali Side Table
Qing Dynasty Elements
Of ‘four-sides-flush’ form, with a single-panel top set within the
wide rectangular frame resting directly on the plain beaded apron,
supported by square beaded legs joined by stretchers.
18 1/2 x 35 x 16 3/4 inches (47 x 89 x 42.5 cm)
Estimate: $6,000 / 8,000
Provenance:
Lot 7287
7288
A Huanghuali Side Table
Qing Dynasty Elements
Of ‘four-sides-flush’ form, with a single-panel top set within the
wide rectangular frame resting directly on the plain beaded apron,
supported by square beaded legs joined by stretchers.
18 1/2 x 35 1/2 x 16 7/8 inches (47 x 90.2 x 42.8 cm)
Estimate: $6,000 / 8,000
Provenance:
Lot 7288
7289
A Pair of Huanghuali Horseshoe-Back Chairs
Late 20th Century
Each rectangular seat with a single panel inset, the rectangular back
splat carved with a ruyi head, the legs with an arch-shaped apron
joined by stretchers, the front with a foliated stretcher.
40 1/2 x 23 3/4 x 19 3/4 inches (103 x 60.3 x 50.2 cm) each approximately
Estimate: $5,000 / 7,000
Lot 7289
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Lot 7290
7290
A Pair of Huanghuali Horseshoe-Back Armchairs and
Side Table
7291
A Pair of Huanghuali Horseshoe-Back Armchairs and
Side Table
Each chair with a rectangular seat with a multi panel inset, the rectangular
back splat carved with shaped flanges, the legs with an arch-shaped apron
joined by stretchers; the side table of square form and decorated en suite.
39 x 26 x 21 inches (99 x 66 x 53 cm) each chair, 19 1/2 x 18 x 18 inches
(50 x 46 x 46 cm) of the table
Each chair with a rectangular seat with a multi panel inset, the rectangular
back splat carved with shaped flanges, the legs with an arch-shaped apron
joined by stretchers; the side table of square form and decorated en suite.
39 x 26 x 21 inches (99 x 66 x 53 cm) each chair, 19 1/2 x 18 x 18 inches
(50 x 46 x 46 cm) of the table
Estimate: $50,000 / 70,000
Estimate: $50,000 / 70,000
Lot 7291
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7292
A Huanghuali Armchair
The straight toprail continuing through the
rounded corners to the backposts, the
straight back comprising three panels featuring a twisted-rope motif, each straight arm
with decorated rectangular panels, the four
slightly curving legs connected with spandrels.
32 x 37 1/2 x 19 inches (81 x 95 x 48 cm)
approximately
Estimate: $30,000 / 40,000
Lot 7292
Lot 7293
Lot 7294
7293
A Large Rosewood Low Table
7294
A Large Rosewood Side Table
20th Century
Early 20th Century
With carved decorative spandrels, all supported on four scrolling legs.
14 1/4 x 59 3/4 x 28 3/4 inches (36.8 x 151.8 x 70.5 cm)
The floating panel top set into a mitered, mortise-and-tenon frame
above a galleried waist and an opposing dragon apron, joined to beaded supports and scrolling feet.
36 x 62 x 19 3/4 (91.5 x 157.5 x 50.2 cm)
Estimate: $1,500 / 2,000
Estimate: $4,000 / 6,000
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Lot 7295
7295
A Huanghuali Altar Table
The floating top panel fitted into a mitered, mortise and tenoned frame with everted flanges over a shaped, beaded apron
joined to circular legs and joined to paired oval stretchers.
37 x 47 x 15 inches (94 x119.4 x 38.1 cm) approximately
Estimate: $30,000 / 50,000
7296
A Tixi Lacquer Hardstone Embellished Six-Fold
Screen
20th Century
Decorated with carvings in the form of precious objects,
including vases on carved wood stands scattered over four central rectangular black-lacquered panels, flanked by further panels inset with similar carvings on a lacquered ground, all within
carved tixi lacquer borders.
72 x 84 x 1 1/2 inches (183 x 213 x 4 cm) approximately
Estimate: $10,000 / 15,000
Lot 7296
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Textiles
7300
An Embroidered Coral-Red-Ground Lady’s
‘Dragon’ Robe
Late Qing Dynasty
Displaying eight five-clawed dragons in brilliant gilt-wrapped
threads, shown flying amidst meandering blue clouds and red
bats while in pursuit of flaming pearls, the sky further decorated
with large pink and blue peony flowers and auspicious symbols
finely worked in Peking knot.
Length: 57 1/2 inches (146 cm) approximately
Estimate: $5,000 / 7,000
Lot 7300
7301
A Brocade Purple-Ground ‘Dragon’ Robe
The deep aubergine ground displaying nine five-clawed
sinuous dragons, each chasing a flaming pearl amidst auspicious emblems, flowers and crane medallions, above
rolling waves and rockwork, the cuff bands and lapel
decorated with golden dragons against a black ground.
Length: 52 inches (132.1 cm) approximately
Estimate: $2,000 / 3,000
Lot 7301
7302
Two Woven Green-Ground Lady’s Informal Robes
Late Qing Dynasty
The first a coat of pale olive green woven with a busy dark yellow pattern depicting intricate floral medallions surrounded by
further leafy floral scrolls, finished with black figural borders and
dark blue sleeve bands; the second a robe of a lime green
ground woven with large butterflies, finished with borders of
black-ground embroideries, pink ribbons and geometric bands.
Longer: 52 inches (132.1 cm) approximately
Estimate: $1,500 / 2,000
Lot 7302
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7303
An Embroidered Lady’s Informal Coat
Late Qing Dynasty
The pale sky blue ground worked in satin stitch and Peking knot
with sprays of white orchids, pink peonies, chrysanthemums and
peaches displayed in baskets, finished with colorful black-ground
brocade borders, the coral-red cuff bands embroidered with
butterflies and additional flowers.
Length: 44 1/4 inches (112.4 cm) approximately
Estimate: $1,200 / 1,800
Lot 7303
7304
Three Chinese Silk Textiles
The first a dark blue satin surcoat with side vents, the
front opening with five toggles and gilt-metal buttons; the
second a black woven jacket edged by embroidered blue
flowers, cuff bands of flowers and butterflies in gilt threads;
the third a multicolored skirt with embroidered cream
ground borders of birds and flowers.
Longest: 49 inches (124.5 cm) approximately
Estimate: $1,500 / 2,000
Lot 7304
7305
An Embroidered Lady’s Robe
19th Century
The greenish-yellow ground embroidered in satin stitch with
pastel colored narcissus plants interspersed by stylized longevity
medallions in couched gilt-wrapped threads, the design repeated
on thick black-ground borders between taupe ribbons displaying
butterflies and flowers, and a wan fret edging, the sleeves finished with layered multicolored bands embroidered to match.
Estimate: $1,000 / 1,500
Lot 7305
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Lot 7306
7306
A Large Kesi-Woven Buddhist Hanging Panel
19th Century
With further painted details depicting a three-headed Buddhist figure with eight arms,
the top pair each holding a flaming pearl, the next pair with a banner and book, the following with a bow and arrow, and the last in namaskara mutra, all seated atop a double
lotus pedestal above one white pig and six black pigs emerging from cloud scrolls.
64 x 34 1/2 inches (162.5 x 87.6 cm) approximately
Estimate: $10,000 / 15,000
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7307
A Kesi-Woven Panel
Late Qing Dynasty
Depicting warriors on horseback charging into battle, the
green border featuring stylized animals and mythical beasts,
edged with black satin.
34 1/2 x 34 inches (87.7 x 86.3 cm) approximately
Estimate: $1,000 / 1,500
7308
A Kesi-Woven ‘Dragon’ Panel
18th/19th Century
Finely woven with a golden front-facing dragon above two
additional confronting golden dragons, each shown chasing
flaming pearls amidst a dark blue sky filled with colorful
cloud meanders, gold longevity medallions, bats and
Buddhist emblems, all above rocks and crashing waves, brocade border.
43 1/4 x 32 3/4 inches (110 x 83.2 cm)
Estimate: $3,000 / 5,000
Lot 7307
7309
A Silk Embroidery of the Eight Immortals
Of vertical format, the brownish-gray ground worked in
satin stitch and Peking knot with the Eight Immortals
depicted in a lush garden setting of pale hues, framed.
76 x 29 1/2 inches (193 x 75 cm) including frame
Estimate: $1,000 / 1,500
Lot 7308
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Lot 7309
Lot 7310
7310
An Uncut Yellow-Ground ‘Dragon’ Panel
17th Century
Of quatrefoil form, brocade in silk and metallic
threads with a collar and opposing four-clawed dragons against a ground of cloud scrolls and flaming
pearls.
Estimate: $4,000 / 6,000
Provenance:
1970s and 1980s.
Lot 7311
7311
Three Chinese Silk Panels
The first an embroidered runner depicting two
opposing metallic-thread dragon roundels flanked by
crashing waves, auspicious emblems and a lishui pattern at each end, enclosed by floral borders; the last
a pair of vertical panels woven with lotus ponds,
birds and fish in pale hues against a purplish-brown
ground, tasseled ornaments to one side.
Largest: 68 x 18 1/2 inches (172.7 x 47 cm)
Estimate: $1,200 / 1,800
7312
An Embroidered Yellow-Ground Cushion
Cover
18th/19th Century
Depicting a central front-facing, five-clawed dragon
coiled around a flaming pearl, encircled by four additional confronting dragons in faded gilt-wrapped
threads, all enclosed by a wide terrestrial diagram in
shades of green, blue and beige, finished with a
woven blue border.
40 1/2 x 42 inches (103 x 107 cm)
Estimate: $2,000 / 3,000
Lot 7313
7313
A Mandarin’s Velvet-Brimmed Hat
19th Century
The upturned brim faced with black velvet and the
high crown covered in black satin under a tassel of
red twisted silk cord, the gilt-metal button the insignia of an official of the fourth rank.
Width: 9 1/2 inches (24.1 cm) approximately
Lot 7312
Estimate: $1,500 / 2,000
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Chinese Paintings, Calligraphy and Books
Michaan’s Auctions’ Fine Chinese Paintings and Calligraphy sale
features over 35 works by classical and modern masters from
various private West Coast collections. Highlights include a large
format landscape painting (lot 7317) by the Ming master Tang Yin
(1427-509), Gathering (lot 7324) by the Qing artist Gao Qipei
(1660-1734), an album of twelve fan paintings (lot 7328) by the
19th century artist Dai Xi (1801-1860) as well as property from
private collections including Flowers and Insects (lot 7332) by Ju
Lian (1828-1904) and a landscape (lot 7342) by the well-recognized
Shanghainese artist Wu Hufan (1894-1968). Also worthy of mentioning are two watercolors by the celebrated Singaporean artist
Chen Wenxi (1906-1992), with one depicting two swallows in
springtime (lot 7346) and the other of two gibbons (lot 7347) – a
favorite subject matter of Chen Wenxi. Both paintings are sourced
from a private Phoenix, Arizona collection and acquired directly
from the artist in Singapore during the 1970s.
This sale will also offer non-painting works such a Qing
dynasty imperial edict (lot 7353), and an album of forty
albumen silver prints depicting life in 19th century Hong
Kong, Guangzhou and Beijing (lot 7354). Rounding out
the section are five lots of reference books and catalogues relating to Asian art. These reference materials
(lots 7355-7359) are must-haves for any serious Asian
art collectors and alike.
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Lot 7316
Lot 7315
7315
Manner of Wen Boren (1502-1575):
Dwellings in Landscape
Hanging scroll, ink and color on silk, the upper
left titled and dated 1570, signed ‘Wen Boren’
with two seals.
41 x 14 inches (104 x 35.5 cm)
Estimate: $2,000 / 3,000
7316
Manner of Shen Zhou (1427-1509):
Landscape
Hand scroll, ink on paper, inscribed and signed
‘Shen Zhou,’ two seals; with calligraphy to the
right, signed ‘Wang Li’ (1813-1879), one seal;
with colophon to the left, signed ‘Wu DaZheng’
(1835-1902), one seal.
Painting: 72 x 10 1/2 inches (183 x 27 cm)
Estimate: $800 / 1,200
7317
Attributed to Tang Yin (1470-1523):
Landscape
Hanging scroll, ink and color on silk, upper left
inscribed and dated winter of 1523, signed
‘Jinchang Tangyin,’ multiple seals.
61 1/2 x 37 1/2 inches (156 x 95 cm)
Estimate: $50,000 / 70,000
Lot 7317
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7318
Manner of Zhou Zhimian (Late Ming Dynasty):
One Hundred Magpies
Hanging scroll, ink and color on silk, the upper left dated,
with a signature ‘Zhou Zhimian,’ one seal; accompanied by
wood box.
46 1/2 x 14 inches (118 x 35.5 cm)
Estimate: $4,000 / 6,000
Provenance:
Senator Theodore Francis Green (1867-1966), Rhode Island,
and thence by descent within the family.
7319
Manner of Yun Shouping (1633-1690): Squirrel
and Pine
Hanging scroll, ink and color on silk, signed ‘Shouping’ with
one seal.
63.5 x 20 inches (161 x 51 cm)
Estimate: $1,000 / 1,500
7320
Manner of Yun Shouping (1633-1690): Birds and
Flowers
Ink and color on silk, upper right inscribed and signed ‘Yunxi
Waishi Shouping,’ two seals, framed.
59 x 16 inches (150 x 41 cm)
Estimate: $800 / 1,200
Provenance:
Bay Area Private Estate Collection. Acquired in Hong Kong
during the 1960s and 1970s, and thence by decent within the
family to the current owner.
Lot 7318
Lot 7319
Lot 7320
7321
Manner of Yun Shouping
(1633-1690): An Album of Eight
Paintings
Each painted with ink and color on silk, dated
1852, the last painting signed ‘Yun Shouping’
with three seals, mounted as an album.
8 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches (21.6 x 14 cm) each
Estimate: $2,000 / 3,000
7322
Attributed to Yun Shouping
(1633-1690): Peony
Hanging scroll, ink and color on silk, the
upper right inscribed and dated 1672, signed
‘Yunxi Shouping,’ five seals.
38 x 18 inches (96.5 x 46 cm)
Estimate: $3,000 / 5,000
7323
Manner of Gao Qipei (1660-1734):
Sage Viewing Prunus
Lot 7321
Lot 7322
Hanging scroll, ink and color on paper, the upper
left inscribed and dated 1720 with two seals.
66 x 17 3/4 inches (168 x 45 cm)
Estimate: $2,000 / 3,000
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Lot 7323
7324
Attributed to Gao Qipei (1660-1734):
Gathering
Hand scroll, ink and color on paper, titled and
inscribed to the left, signed ‘Gao Qipei’ (16601734), five seals; with a title slip to the right dated
1794, signed ‘Chen Hongshou’ (1768-1822), one
seal; with calligraphy to the left, dated and signed,
two seals.
Painting: 231 x 7 1/2 inches (587 x 19 cm)
Estimate: $6,000 / 8,000
Lot 7324
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7325
Attributed to Shen Quan (1682-1760):
Landscape
Hanging scroll, ink and color on silk, signed ‘Nanping
Shenquan,’ two seals.
60 3/4 x 21 inches (154 x 53 cm)
Estimate: $1,000 / 1,500
7326
Manner of Dong Bangda (1699-1769):
Landscape
Hanging scroll, ink on silk, the lower left dated 1760
and signed ‘Dong Bangda’ with one seal.
36.5 x 16 inches (93 x 41 cm)
Estimate: $1,000 / 1,500
7327
Wang Su (1794-1877): Scholar and His Qin
Beneath a Palm
Lot 7325
Lot 7326
Lot 7327
Ink and color on paper, inscribed and signed ‘Wang Su,’
one seal, framed and glazed.
28 1/2 x 10 1/2 inches (72 x 27 cm)
Estimate: $1,000 / 1,500
7328
Dai Xi (1801-1860): An Album of Twelve
Fan Paintings
Each painted with ink and color on silk, inscribed and
dated, bearing the signature ‘Dai Xi’ with seals, mounted as an album.
Diameter: 21 inches (53 cm) each
Estimate: $6,000 / 8,000
Lot 7328
7329
Shi Lianxi (1816-1884): Red Cliff
Ink and color on silk, depicting a scholar in a boat
beneath red cliffs, titled and dated 1875, signed ‘Lian
Xi’ with one seal, framed and glazed.
16 x 33 1/2 inches (41 x 85 cm)
Estimate: $1,000 / 1,500
7330
Various Artists: Eight Circular Fan
Paintings
Depicting Guanyin, birds and flowers, ink and color on
silk, five signed by ‘Shanggu Languang’ and the others
signed by various artists including but not limited to
Zhu Cheng (1826-1900), multiple seals; each mounting
and handle made from either wood or bone.
Largest Diameter: 10 4/5 inches (27.4 cm)
Estimate: $2,000 / 3,000
Lot 7330
Lot 7329
76
Provenance:
1970s and 1980s.
7331
Song Butai (19th Century):
The Daoist Immortals’ Paradise
Ink and color on paper, dated Autumn of
1833, the lower right inscribed and signed
‘Song Butai,’ two seals, framed and glazed.
68 1/2 x 38 1/2 inches (174 x 98)
Estimate: $5,000 / 7,000
Lot 7331
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Lot 7332
7332
Ju Lian (1828-1904): Flower and Insects
Ink and color on silk, inscribed and signed ‘Ju Lian,’
one seal, framed and glazed.
39 3/4 x 14 inches (101 x 35.5 cm) excluding frame
Estimate: $30,000 / 50,000
Provenance:
Private Collection, Oakland, CA.
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7333
Lu Hui (1851-1920): Lotus
Hanging scroll, ink and color on paper, the upper left titled
‘FengYuPuTang’ and inscribed with one seal.
31 1/2 x 14 inches (80 x 35.5 cm)
Estimate: $1,000 / 1,500
7334
Anonymous: General Lü Bu Attacking His Lover’s Wooer
Ink and color on paper, two seals, framed and glazed.
39 x 11 inches (99 x 28 cm)
Estimate: $1,000 / 1,500
7335
Anonymous (After Wang Meng: 1309-1385): River
Landscape
Ink and color on silk, inscribed and signed ‘Wang Meng’ with one seal,
framed and glazed.
11 1/4 x 71 1/2 inches (28.5 x 182 cm)
Estimate: $2,000 / 3,000
7336
Anonymous: Seven Album Leaves and a Calligraphy
Work
Qing Dynasty
Each album leaf depicting scenes of Yuan Dynasty customs, ink and color
on silk, one signed ‘Qian Xuan’ with one seal; each remounted together
as a single panel, framed and glazed.
10 3/4 x 12 3/4 inches (27 x 32 cm) each
Estimate: $2,000 / 3,000
Lot 7333
Lot 7334
Lot 7335
Lot 7336
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7337
Yang Changyi: Spring
Landscape
Hanging scroll, ink on paper, the upper
left titled and inscribed, dated with one
seal.
51 x 12 inches (130 x 30.5 cm)
Estimate: $1,000 / 1,500
7338
A Chinese Painting Triptych
Depicting a busy village scene, framed.
Each: 88.5 x 36 inches (225 x 91.5 cm)
Estimate: $1,000 / 1,500
Lot 7338
Lot 7337
7339
A Chinese Erotic Subject
Painting
Ink and color on silk, depicting figures
enjoying amorous pursuits in an indoor
setting, framed and glazed.
5 1/2 x 6 1/2 inches (14 x 17 cm)
Estimate: $1,000 / 1,500
7340
Manner of Qi Baishi
(1864-1957): Plum and Insect
Hanging scroll, ink and color on paper,
signed ‘fenglinting laoren,’ one seal.
23 1/2 x 9 1/2 inches (60 x 24 cm)
Estimate: $3,000 / 5,000
Lot 7339
Lot 7340
80
7341
Chen Banding (1877-1970):
Blooming Chrysanthemums
Hanging scroll, ink and color on paper, inscribed,
dated to the bingxu year (1946), signed ‘Chen
Banding’, four seals, now framed and glazed.
39 1/4 x 19 3/4 inches (99.7 x 50.2 cm) excluding
frame
Estimate: $6,000 / 8,000
Provenance:
East Coast Private Collection, reputedly acquired in
New York during the 1970s, and thence by descent
within the family to the present owner.
Lot 7341
81
7342
Wu Hufan (1894-1968): Landscape
Hanging scroll, ink on paper, the upper left
inscribed ‘dedicated to Mrs. Thunig,’ signed ‘Wu
Hufan,’ dated 1938, two seals.
45 1/2 x 11 3/4 inches (115.6 x 29.8 cm)
Estimate: $50,000 / 70,000
Provenance:
Mr. and Mrs. (Josefine) Ernst Hermann Thunig,
acquired in Shanghai during the 1930s and 1940s,
and thence by descent within the family to the current owner.
Mr. and Mrs. (Josefine) Ernst Hermann
Thunig
Lot 7342
82
7343
Deng Longguang (1896-1979): Calligraphy
7344
Jiang Zenguang (1900-1989): Landscape
Hanging scroll, ink on paper, inscribed and signed ‘Deng
Longguang,’ with one seal.
26 1/2 x 13 inches (67 x 33 cm)
Hanging scroll, ink on paper, inscribed and signed ‘Jiang
Zenguang,’ with three seals.
39 x 13 inches (99 x 33 cm)
Estimate: $1,000 / 1,500
Estimate: $2,000 / 3,000
Provenance:
Mr. and Mrs. (Josefine) Ernst Hermann Thunig, acquired in
Shanghai during the 1930s and 1940s, and thence by descent
within the family to the current owner.
Provenance:
Lot 7343
Lot 7344
7345
Li Kuchan (1898-1983): Eagle and
Pine
20th Century
Hanging scroll, ink and color on paper, titled
‘Yuan Zhan’ dated the summer of the gengshen year (1980), signed ‘Shisu’, one seal of the
artist.
26 x 16 1/4 inches (66 x 41.3 cm)
Estimate: $5,000 / 7,000
Provenance:
Reynold Tom Collection, mostly acquired
during the 1970s and 1980s.
Lot 7345
83
7346
Chen Wenxi (Singaporean, 1906-1992):
Swallows
Ink and color on paper, signed and with two seals,
mounted.
37 x 13 1/2 inches (94 x 34.3 cm) approximately
Estimate: $7,000 / 9,000
Provenance:
Phoenix, Arizona Private Collection.
The Old & New Gallery, Singapore, July 22, 1988.
Lot 7346
84
Lot 7347
7347
Chen Wenxi (Singaporean, 1906-1992): Two Gibbons
Ink and color on paper, signed and with one seal, mounted.
12 x 16 inches (30.5 x 40.6 cm) approximately
Estimate: $5,000 / 7,000
Provenance:
Phoenix, Arizona Private Collection.
The Old & New Gallery, Singapore, July 22, 1988.
7348
Tang Yun (1910-1993): Bird and Bamboo
Ink and color on paper, inscribed and signed ‘Tang Yun,’ one seal,
framed and glazed.
11 3/4 x 9 inches (30 x 23 cm)
Estimate: $1,000 / 1,500
Lot 7348
85
Lot 7349
7349
Cheng Shifa (1921-2007): Girl with Water Buffalo
20th Century
Ink and color on paper, dated autumn of 1972, inscribed and with a
signature ‘Cheng Shifa’, one seal, mounted.
12 1/8 x 27 7/8 inches (30.8 x 70.8 cm)
Estimate: $10,000 / 15,000
86
Lot 7351
Lot 7350
7350
Hu Yuji (b.1927): Lotus Pond
Ink and color on paper, signed ‘Yuji’ with one seal, framed.
26 x 15 1/2 inches (66 x 39 cm)
Estimate: $2,000 / 3,000
7351
Li Huanmin (b.1930): The World Has Changed
Ink and color on paper, the lower right titled and signed ëLi
Huanminí, dated 1979, framed and glazed.
30 x 26 inches (76 x 66 cm)
Estimate: $1,000 / 1,500
7352
Attributed to Wang Mingming (b. 1952): Seven
Sages of the Bamboo Grove
Hanging scroll, ink and color on paper, the lower left titled and
dated 1999, signed ‘Mingming,’ three seals.
55 x 13 3/4 inches (139.5 x 35 cm)
Estimate: $2,000 / 3,000
7353
An Imperial Edict
Daoguang Period, Dated to 1850
Written on silk brocade woven with a pattern of scattered
ruyi-clouds mounted as a hand scroll, the text arranged in standard form reading from left to right in Manchu, and repeated
from right to left in Chinese characters, the Chinese text
opening with a four-character title in a vertical line, Fengtian
Gaoming, ‘By Command of Heaven’, flanked by a pair of dragons, followed by a long text ending with the date 30th year of
Daoguang, corresponding to 1850, stamped with a large seal
impression, and continuing with the Manchu text.
155 x 13 inches (393.7 x 33 cm)
Estimate: $3,000 / 5,000
Lot 7352
Lot 7353
87
Lot 7354
Lot 7354
detail
Lot 7354
detail
7354
Hong Kong, Canton and Peking: An
Album of 40 Albumen Silver Prints
Attributed to John Thomson (Scottish, 1837-1921), Lai
Afong (Chinese, active circa 1859-1900), Dutton and
Michaels (Americans, active 1860s), and various other
photographers, Late 19th Century
An album of 40 albumen silver prints, some with
printed captions and numbers pasted below, early
20th century binding, leaves working loose.
11 x 9 inches (28 x 23 cm) each print approximately
Estimate: $8,000 / 12,000
Lot 7354
88
detail
Lot 7354
detail
Lot 7356
Lot 7355
7355
Eleven Volumes of ‘Oriental Ceramics: The World’s
Great Collections,’ with Two Volumes of ‘Mayuyama,
Seventy Years’
Referencing various museum collections and the Mayuyama &
Company Ltd. catalogue; with text written in English, Chinese and
Japanese; a full book listing is available upon request.
Largest: 10 1/2 x 14 3/4 inches (27 x 37 cm)
Estimate: $1,200 / 1,800
7356
A Rare Complete Set of ‘Oriental Ceramic Art,
Collection of W.T. Walters,’ Sections 1-10
Printed 1896, New York, by D. Appleton & Company, Number 47 of 500
Grouped in pairs and encased in five original green cloth protective
covers, each woven with the characters, Taoshuo, ‘Ceramics Records’,
bound in yellow paper with a descending dragon highlighted in gilt and
with the titles ‘Oriental Ceramic Art’ and ‘Collection of W.T. Walters’,
featuring full-page chromolithographic plates by Louis Prang, and black
and white illustrations and text by S.W. Bushell.
22 1/2 x 17 inches (57.2 x 43 cm) each
Lot 7357
Estimate: $6,000 / 8,000
Lot 7358
Lot 7359
7357
A Large Collection of Books, Catalogs
and Magazines on Asian Art
7358
Six Volumes of ‘Oriental Ceramics: The
World’s Great Collections’
7359
A Collection of Eleven Books on
Chinese Art and Furniture
Of various subject matters including Chinese,
Japanese and Korean Ceramics, Jades, Works of Art,
Snuff Bottles, Prints, and Celadon Wares; a full book
listing is available upon request.
Referencing six museum collections, with text written in English, Chinese and Japanese; a detailed book
listing is available upon request.
10 1/2 x 14 3/4 inches (27 x 37 cm) each
Including books on Chinese furniture and jade; a full
book listing is available upon request.
Estimate: $1,000 / 1,500
Estimate: $1,000 / 1,500
Estimate: $1,500 / 2,000
89
Chinese Ceramics
Lot 7360
Lot 7363
Lot 7362
Lot 7361
Lot 7365
Lot 7364
7360
A Purple Splashed Jun-Ware Bowl
7361
Two Jun-Ware Ceramics
7362
Five Qingbai Vessels
Song Dynasty
Song Dynasty and Later
Song Dynasty
The deep rounded bowl covered in a light blue glaze
stopping just above the unglazed short foot.
Comprising a small purple-splashed tripod censer
and a shallow bowl with a thick sky-blue glaze.
Diameter: 6 15/16 inches (17.6 cm) of bowl
Estimate: $2,000 / 3,000
Estimate: $1,500 / 2,000
Comprising three dishes with flared sides, each interior with incised or molded decoration; and two
conical bowls with incised floral patterns to the
interior.
Provenance:
Estimate: $2,500 / 3,500
7363
Two Yaozhou Celadon Bowls and a
White-Glazed Bowl
7364
Two Longquan Celadon Ceramics
7365
Three Jian ‘Hare’s Fur’-Glazed Tea Bowls
Southern Song Dynasty
Song Dynasty
Song/Jin Dynasty
The first a pear-shaped vase raised on a short foot,
the body tapering to the slightly rounded upright
rim, covered all over and on the base with a finely
crackled glaze of pale yellowish-green tone; the second a jarlet with molded decoration.
The first of conical form with an everted rim; the
second with rounded sides, the black glaze with russet ‘hare’s fur’ markings below the matte, with dark
brown slip covering the rim; the third a large bowl
with rounded sides rising up to the finger-grooved
rim.
Widest: 7 1/2 inches (19 cm)
The first with flared sides, the interior carved with a
conch shell and surrounded by combed details, all
under an olive-green glaze; the second a large bowl
with rounded, flared sides, and the interior carved
with flowers and scrolling stems; the third a whiteglazed tea bowl carved to the interior with a floral
pattern.
Diameter: 7 inches (17.8 cm) of the large bowl
Estimate: $1,500 / 2,000
90
Estimate: $1,200 / 1,600
Estimate: $1,500 / 2,000
Lot 7366
Lot 7368
Lot 7367
Lot 7371
Lot 7370
Lot 7369
7366
A Jizhou ‘Tortoiseshell’-Glazed Tea Bowl
7367
A Jun-Ware Bowl
7368
A Black-Glazed Wine Bottle
Southern Song Dynasty
Yuan Dynasty
Jin/Yuan Dynasty
The slightly rounded conical body covered inside
and out with a variegated glaze of milky beige, russet and brown tone falling irregularly to the foot.
Of deep, rounded, conical form and covered inside
and out with a thick, crackled blue glaze with a faint
purple tone, the foot unglazed.
The broad-shouldered, tapering body covered overall with a lustrous dark brownish-black hare’s fur
glaze.
Estimate: $1,500 / 2,000
Estimate: $4,000 / 6,000
Estimate: $900 / 1,300
7369
A Qingbai Model of a Luohan
7370
A Longquan Celadon Dish
7371
A Lead-Glazed Ceramic Figure
Yuan Dynasty
Ming Dynasty
Ming Dynasty
Shown draped in flowing robes with a meditative
expression and seated in dhyanasana on a rocky
platform, the glaze of a pale celadon hue.
With barbed rim, decorated with incised flower
sprays and pomegranates, all but the foot covered in
a thick celadon glaze.
Depicting a seated official decorated with amber,
aubergine and turquoise lead glazes.
Estimate: $1,000 / 1,500
Estimate: $1,000 / 1,500
Estimate: $800 / 1,200
Provenance:
91
7372
Two Celadon-Glazed Vases
Early Ming Dynasty
The first of pear shape supported on a sturdy foot and surmounted by a trumpet neck flanked by a pair of mythical beast
head handles with large fixed rings, the neck encircled by raised
bands, the body with a raised floral decoration and a band of
leaves by the foot; the second of baluster form surmounted by
a trumpet neck flanked by a pair of mythical beast head handles
with large fixed rings, the shoulders displaying molded decoration of turtles and ducks.
Estimate: $5,000 / 7,000
Provenance:
Mr. Vito Giallo Collection, primarily acquired from Sotheby’s
New York during the 1960s-1980s.
Lot 7372
Lot 7373
7373
A Blue and White Porcelain Plaque Table Screen
19th Century
The square plaque painted with a central lotus flower surrounded
by the eight Buddhist emblems, stylized lotus and scrolling leaves,
all within key-fret borders, with a hardwood stand.
11 3/8 x 11 3/8 inches (34 x 34 cm) approximately
Estimate: $1,000 / 1,500
7374
Two Pairs of Blue and White Planters
Kangxi Marks, 19th/20th Century
Lot 7374
The first pair of tapering cylindrical form, the exterior with a central scrolling stylized band in between ruyi-head and lappet bands, the everted rim with further
scrolling lotus decorations, with matching under tray, the base bearing Kangxi marks
and dual drainage holes; the second pair of bulbous cylindrical form, the exterior of
similar decoration but with a denser lotus foliage, with a single drainage hole.
Estimate: $4,000 / 6,000
Provenance:
7375
A Pair of Blue and White Planters
Qianlong Marks, 19th/20th Century
Each painted with four roundels depicting confronting dragons amidst scrolling foliage, the mouth and rim with decorative bands, with dual drainage holes to the
marked base, matching under trays.
Height: 6 5/8 inches (16.8 cm) each including tray
Estimate: $1,500 / 2,000
Lot 7375
Provenance:
7376
Three Blue and White Planters
19th/20th Century
Each painted with confronting five-clawed dragons centered by a flaming pearl and
amidst flames and clouds, all above waves and beneath a band of ruyi-heads, the
drilled base bearing Yongzheng and Qianlong marks, matching under trays.
Estimate: $2,000 / 3,000
Lot 7376
92
Provenance:
Lot 7377
Lot 7378
7377
A Large Blue and White Jar
7378
A Blue and White Square-Form Vase
19th Century
Qianlong Mark, Late Qing Dynasty
The compressed baluster form depicting numerous
boys in a classroom.
Each side painted with various historical figures and
lengthy inscriptions, with twin beast-head handles.
Estimate: $1,000 / 1,500
Estimate: $2,000 / 3,000
Provenance:
Lot 7380
Lot 7379
7379
A Blue and White Sextuple-Spouted
Lobbed Vase
Late Qing Dynasty
The quintuple-lobbed vase with a bottle neck and a
flaring mouth, decorated throughout with stylized
lotus flowers and the eight Buddhist emblems.
Estimate: $1,500 / 2,000
Lot 7381
Lot 7382
7380
Two Blanc-de-Chine Figures
7381
Three Blue-Glazed Porcelains
7382
A Copper-Red-Glazed Bowl
Ming Dynasty and Later
Ming and Qing Dynasties (the larger bowl of Jiajing period)
Qing Dynasty
The first a depiction of Wenchang sitting in an armchair and accompanied by his various attendants and
a mule, all on a two-tiered rocky platform; the second a female figure shown with flowing robes and a
serene facial expression.
Estimate: $1,500 / 2,000
Provenance:
Comprising a small powder blue glazed bottle vase
with a Chenghua four-character mark to the base; a
deep circular bowl coated to the interior and exterior with a rich ‘Mohammedan’ blue glaze; and a
small circular bowl coated with a crackled blue
glaze.
The conical form with rounded sides rising from a
short straight foot ring, covered in a rich red glaze
leaving the rim and the recessed base white, wood
stand.
Estimate: $1,000 / 1,500
Estimate: $3,000 / 5,000
Provenance:
93
Lot 7383
Lot 7385
Lot 7384
Lot 7386
Lot 7387
Lot 7388
7383
Five Double-Gourd-Form Monochrome
Vases
7384
Six Small Monochrome Vases
Qing Dynasty
Comprising a coral-red glazed bottle vase; a clairede-lune glazed baluster vase with a Yongzheng
six-character mark; a white glazed slender baluster
vase; a blue glazed compressed globular vase; a powder blue bottle vase; and a peach bloom glazed bottle vase.
Qianlong Period
Estimate: $2,000 / 3,000
Provenance:
Comprising two cafe-au-lait glazed vases, the larger
decorated with a knotted ribbon to the center; a
junyao type glazed vase with splashes of maroon on
a sky-blue ground; a peach bloom glazed vase bearing a Kangxi six-character mark to the base; and a
mirror black glazed vase of slender form.
Estimate: $1,200 / 1,800
Provenance:
Qing Dynasty
Provenance:
7385
An ‘Imitation Bronze’ Porcelain Tripod
Censer
The compressed globular and circular form vessel
covered in a cafe-au-lait glaze, supported on three
short feet, with fitted hardwood lid and stand.
Estimate: $2,000 / 3,000
7386
Four Monochrome Bottle Vases
7387
Three Green Langyao Type Vases
7388
A Powder Blue-Glazed Rouleau Vase
18th Century
18th/19th Century
Kangxi Period
The first a claire-de-lune glazed vase with a compressed body, a Kangxi six-character mark to the
base; the second a powder turquoise glazed vase
with a globular body, the base bearing a Xuande
four-character mark; the third a powder pink glazed
vase with a compressed body; the fourth a powder
yellow glazed vase with an ovoid body.
The first a pair of meiping vases with the exterior
coated in an apple green crackled glaze, each with a
Qianlong mark to the base; the third a small bottle
vase also with its exterior coated in a rich apple
green crackled glaze.
Thickly potted with a cupped rim, the cylindrical
neck and canted shoulder above the elongated body
constricting inward to a short foot, the recessed
base with a double-circle mark.
Estimate: $5,000 / 7,000
Provenance:
Provenance:
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Estimate: $2,000 / 3,000
Estimate: $2,000 / 3,000
Provenance:
7389
Two Mirror Black Vases
Lot 7391
Lot 7390
Lot 7389
7390
A Pair of Blue-Glazed Triple-Spouted
Double-Gourd Vases
7391
A White-Glazed Porcelain Cong-Shaped
Vase
Qing Dynasty
Qing Dynasty
Each in the form of three conjoined vases rising
from the three-lobed body to the conforming necks,
the midsection with a simulated knotted ribbon,
applied overall with a deep blue glaze.
Of square section on a circular foot, with a short
round neck, each side molded in relief with horizontal ribs at the corners and double vertical ribs on
each side, all under a white glaze.
Estimate: $2,000 / 3,000
Estimate: $1,500 / 2,000
Provenance:
Provenance:
7392
A Clair-de-Lune Glazed Jardiniere
7393
A Blue-Glazed Vase
7394
A Green Langyao Type Vase
Yongzheng Mark, 19th Century
Kangxi Mark, 19th Century
Qing Dynasty
The shallow circular container’s sides carved as a
row of bamboo stalks tided together, all coated in
an attractive pale blue glaze, except for the bottom
of the feet revealing the smooth white body and
four tiny spur marks along the lengths of the base,
bearing a Yongzheng six-character mark.
The tall vase with flaring mouth covered in a turquoise-blue crackled glaze, the interior mostly plain,
bearing an incised Kangxi mark, wood stand.
Of baluster form with a short neck rising to a trumpet mouth, covered overall in an apple-green crackled glaze except for the interior, foot and base.
Estimate: $1,000 / 1,500
Estimate: $1,500 / 2,000
Qing Dynasty
The first a bottle vase, the globular body rising to a
tall, slender stick neck, covered in a lush black glaze
overall, the recessed base with a four-character
Wanli mark encircled by a pair of confronting dragons; the second a rouleau vase, the black ground
painted in gilt with various antiquities and seasonal
cut flowers, the base with a six-character mark in a
double-circle.
Taller: 17 1/4 inches (43.8 cm)
Estimate: $3,000 / 5,000
Provenance:
Estimate: $3,000 / 5,000
Provenance:
1970s and 1980s.
Lot 7392
Lot 7393
Lot 7394
95
Lot 7395
7395
A Yixing Molded ‘Dragon’ Bowl
Signed Chen Jinghou, Qianlong Period
The deep rounded sides molded in relief with five dragon and cloud roundels below a
band of longevity characters at the rim, the vessel of purplish stoneware, the recessed
base with a four-character stamped seal reading ‘Chen Jinghou,’ with a matching wood
stand.
Estimate: $30,000 / 50,000
Provenance:
96
7396
Three Monochrome Porcelains
19th Century
Comprising a claire-de-lune glazed vase with two unglazed shaped cartouches to
the body; and two blue-glazed vessels including a deep bowl on three short feet,
and a bottle vase.
Estimate: $1,200 / 1,600
7397
A Turquoise and Aubergine-Glazed Figure of Guanyin
Kangxi Period
Lot 7396
Shown wearing a long-sleeved robe enameled in turquoise and aubergine with a
willow branch and open at the chest to reveal a beaded necklace, the face with a
gentle smile framed by long pendulous earlobes and hair piled into a high bun
beneath a hooded green cowl, with a matching stand.
Height: 19 3/4 inches (50.2 cm) approximately
Estimate: $4,000 / 6,000
7398
A Guan-Type Glazed Jardiniere
Qing Dynasty
Raised on three low feet and of compressed rectangular form, all covered with a
thick glaze of soft gray tone with an attractive matrix of ‘iron wire’ and ‘golden
thread’.
Estimate: $2,000 / 3,000
Lot 7398
Lot 7397
97
Lot 7399
7399
A Robin’s Egg Glazed Tripod Censer
Qianlong Mark, Late Qing Dynasty
Of compressed globular form with lion-head handles, relief-molded and painted in gilt with the eight Buddhist emblems enclosing
two cartouches, one with confronting dragons centering a flaming
pearl, and the other with a seventeen-character inscription, the
short legs with relief-molded and painted lingzhi, the base with an
impressed six-character mark, with a fitted wood lid.
Estimate: $2,000 / 3,000
7400
Two Flambé-Glazed Vases
Qianlong Mark, 19th Century
Lot 7400
The first with a pear-shaped body rising from a tapered foot to a
wide mouth flanked by a pair of lug handles on the neck, covered
overall in a crackled purple and red glaze with bright blue strokes,
the deeply recessed base with an impressed Qianlong six-character mark; the second a smaller vase of similar execution in shape
and coloration.
Estimate: $5,000 / 7,000
Provenance:
7401
A Porcelain Lidded Box
Qianlong Mark, 19th/20th Century
The biscuit fired container of ruyi shape, the lid with a molded
decoration of figures in a garden, the sides of the box with boys
at play, the recessed base bearing an impressed Qianlong six-character mark.
Width: 5 1/2 inches (14 cm)
Estimate: $2,000 / 3,000
Provenance:
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Lot 7401
Lot 7403
Lot 7402
Lot 7406
Lot 7405
Lot 7404
Lot 7407
7402
A Green-Glazed Porcelain Vase
7403
A Pair of Yellow-Glazed Vases
7404
A Celadon-Glazed Vase
Wang Bingrong Mark, Republic Period
Qianlong Marks, Early 20th Century
Guangxu Mark, 20th Century
Molded in relief with two pheasants in a garden featuring bamboo, peony, pine, willow and rocks, the
reverse inscribed, dated and with one seal, the base
bearing an impressed Wang Bingrong mark.
Height: 13 inches (33 cm)
Each of identical beaker shape with a trumpet-from
neck and slightly splayed foot, decorated with
incised and molded archaistic style decorations in
glazes of green, white and aubergine to a brilliant
mustard-yellow ground, the recessed base displaying
the six-character seal mark.
Of facetted rectangular section, the pear-shaped
body rising to a broad neck flanked by a pair of
tubular lug handles, covered inside and out in an
even, opaque, pale celadon glaze, the deeply recessed
base marked.
Estimate: $1,200 / 1,800
Estimate: $900 / 1,300
7405
A Lead-Glazed Ceramic Ruyi Scepter
The curving handle with ruyi-head terminals and
covered in colorful glazes, molded with a pair of
confronting dragons and bats, the handle decorated
with an auspicious inscription against a yellow wanfret ground, with matching reticulated wood stand.
Width: 19 inches (48.3 cm) of scepter
Estimate: $1,000 / 1,500
Estimate: $1,000 / 1,500
Provenance:
Bonhams, San Francisco, December 21, 2011, lot 8773.
7406
A Small Wucai Vase
7407
A Famille Rose Bowl
Jiajing Mark
Daoguang Mark
Decorated with standing figures in between
Buddhist emblems suspending tassels, all below a
double line and a band of flowers, bands of key-fret
scrolls and upright plantain leaves encircle the
mouth rim and foot, the Jiajing six-character reign
mark within a double circle to the base.
With deep rounded sides, the exterior painted with
four swallows perched on a flowering prunus tree,
the six-character mark to the recessed base.
Estimate: $1,000 / 1,500
Estimate: $1,500 / 2,000
Provenance:
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7408
A Wucai Wine Cup
Yongzheng Mark
The rounded walls rising to a slightly flaring rim,
painted to the exterior with a blooming prunus
tree issuing from a grassy plain and jagged blue
rockwork, the reverse with an inscription, the
recessed base bearing a six-character mark within
double circles.
Estimate: $6,000 / 8,000
7409
A Large Iron-Red-Decorated Bottle
Vase
Jiaqing Mark, 19th Century
The bulbous body decorated with chilong of various sizes amidst scrolling leaves that continue on
the broad neck, the recessed base with an apocryphal six-character Jiaqing mark.
Height: 26 inches (66 cm) approximately
Estimate: $5,000 / 7,000
Lot 7408
Lot 7409
7410
A Pair of Enameled Black-Ground
Bowls
19th Century
Each painted to the exterior in green enamel to
depict motifs of stylized vine and lotus scrolls, the
flared rim covered in gilt, the base bearing a
six-character mark.
Diameter: 4 5/8 inches (11.8 cm) each
Lot 7410
Estimate: $800 / 1,200
7411
A Wall Panel with Two Famille Rose
Plaques
Late 19th Century
The first of circular form decorated with three
female figures under a pine tree; the second of
rectangular form depicting a mother figure and her
two boys in a garden with various scholar items;
both plaques inscribed, dated to 1898, signed Wang
Peizhang and with seals, now mounted into a single
vertical wood wall panel.
54 x 16 1/2 inches (137.2 x 41.9 cm)
Estimate: $2,000 / 3,000
7412
Two Famille Verte Vases
19th/20th Century
Comprising a rouleau vase decorated with birds
and flowers in a garden setting; and a baluster vase
with insects and flowers in between decorative
panels and bands.
Estimate: $1,500 / 2,000
Provenance:
Reynold Tom Collection, mostly acquired during
the 1970s and 1980s.
Lot 7411
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Lot 7412
Lot 7413
Lot 7414
Lot 7416
Lot 7415
Lot 7417
Lot 7418
7413
A Famille Rose ‘Peach’ Charger
7414
An Enameled Porcelain Tureen
7415
A Famille Rose Vase
19th Century
Late 19th Century, dated by inscription to 1886
Qianlong Mark, 19th Century
Decorated to the interior and exterior with a continuous design of bats in flight amongst blossoming
and fruiting peach branches, bearing nine fruit, the
recessed base bearing an underglaze blue Qianlong
seal mark.
Painted to the exterior with a mynah and various
flowers, inscribed, dated and signed to the reverse,
the tall spreading foot decorated with oracle script
characters, the domed lid with similar decoration,
wood stand.
Of globular form, the exterior painted with three
circular reserves each containing flowers and insects,
all against an iron-red diaper ground, the recessed
base bearing a six-character seal mark.
Estimate: $2,000 / 3,000
Estimate: $1,000 / 1,500
7416
A Pair of Famille Verte Bottle Vases
7417
Two Chinese Export Canton Famille
Rose Service Wares
7418
An ‘Imitation Bamboo’ Porcelain
Container
19th Century
Daoguang Mark, 19th/20th Century
Comprising a rectangular form tureen and a scallop-edged bowl, each decorated with figures in a
landscape or birds and blossoms within cartouches.
Of cylindrical form, molded as twenty-seven spotted
bamboo stalks linked together by a faux ribbon, two
stalks with bamboo leaves, the recessed base with
an impressed six-character Daoguang mark.
19th Century
Each of pear shape with a slightly tapering neck, decorated with two pheasants in a garden featuring
orchid, magnolia and peony issuing from rocks, decorative bands by the mouth and foot, the base with a
double-circle mark.
Estimate: $1,000 / 1,500
Estimate: $1,000 / 1,500
Estimate: $1,000 / 1,500
Estimate: $2,000 / 3,000
Provenance:
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Lot 7420
Lot 7421
Lot 7419
Lot 7424
Lot 7423
Lot 7422
7419
A Famille Rose Vase
7420
A Set of Famille Rose Star Gods
7421
A Famille Rose Lidded Food Container
Early 20th Century
Republic Period
Linzhi Chengxiang Mark, Republic Period
Of baluster form, painted to the body with a song
bird perched on a flowering tree branch, an inscription to the reverse, the long neck flanked by a pair
of elephant-head handles, the base with a four-character mark.
Depicting Fu, Lu and Shou wearing colorful robes
and accompanied by their respective attributes, one
with a stamped Tongzhi four-character mark to the
unglazed base.
The domed lid finely painted with five boys at play
along with three rams in a garden, the container featuring peach, Buddha’s finger citron and pomegranate branches, the recessed base with a four-character mark.
Estimate: $1,000 / 1,500
Estimate: $3,000 / 5,000
Provenance:
1970s and 1980s.
Estimate: $5,000 / 7,000
Provenance:
1970s and 1980s.
7422
Four Famille Rose Vases
7423
Four Famille Rose Lidded Containers
7424
Two Pairs of Famille Rose Planters
Republic Period
Guangxu Marks, Early 20th Century
Republic Period
Each of slender baluster form, featuring various decorations including figures in gardens and birds with
flowers, three vases with marks to the base.
Each decorated in rich enamels to the lid and container with a profusion of various flowers below the
gilt-painted rim, with a Guangxu six-character mark.
Each decorated with various flowers, one pair with a
Hongxian four-character mark.
Estimate: $2,000 / 3,000
Estimate: $2,000 / 3,000
Provenance:
1970s and 1980s.
Provenance:
1970s and 1980s.
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Estimate: $1,500 / 2,000
Provenance:
1970s and 1980s.
Lot 7427
Lot 7425
Lot 7426
Lot 7428
Lot 7430
Lot 7429
7425
7426
7427
Early 20th Century
Republic Period
19th/20th Century
Each painted with various flowers, one pair reversed
by butterflies.
The first pair featuring two circular panels displaying
floral scenes, all on a powder blue sgraffiato ground
with various flowers, with matching under trays,
Qianlong marks; the second pair finely painted with
a continuous floral scene and two bats, with marks.
Comprising a pair of square containers painted with
alternating panels of flowers and calligraphy; and a
pair hexagonal form containers painted with flowers
and antiques, inscribed to the reverse and dated to
1894.
Estimate: $3,000 / 5,000
Estimate: $2,000 / 3,000
Provenance:
1970s and 1980s.
Provenance:
1970s and 1980s.
7428
Two Pairs of Famille Rose Hexagonal
Footed Planters
7429
Three Pairs of Enameled Planters
7430
Four Small Famille Rose Porcelain
Plaques
19th/20th Century
The first pair with a continuous landscape scene and
reversed by a poetic inscription; the second pair featuring panels of either birds and flowers, landscapes
or poetic inscriptions, with matching footed under
trays.
The first a pair painted in iron-red enamel with a
lion and a cub, the reverse inscribed, signed and with
a seal; the second a pair with foliated rims and
painted with horses and a wrangler by a river; the
third a pair painted with five boys playing in a garden, the reverse inscribed and with a seal.
Estimate: $4,000 / 6,000
Estimate: $3,000 / 5,000
Provenance:
1970s and 1980s.
Provenance:
1970s and 1980s.
Estimate: $1,000 / 1,500
Provenance:
1970s and 1980s.
Early 20th Century
Republic Period
Each delicately painted with birds next to flowers or
trees, signed ‘Zi You’ and with a seal, mounted as a
miniature folding screen.
8 x 3 3/4 inches (20.3 x 9.5 cm) each approximately
Estimate: $2,000 / 3,000
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Lot 7431
7431
A Set of Fourteen Famille Rose Porcelain Plaques
Wang Bingrong Marks, 19th/20th Century
Featuring with molded decoration of flowers, insects, birds, landscapes and figures, all on
a creamy turquoise ground, each with an impressed Wang Bingrong four-character mark
to the bottom, all inset into a four-panel wood folding screen.
83 x 79 inches (210.8 x 200.7 cm) overall;
10 1/2 x 10 1/2 inches (26.7 x 26.7 cm) approximately each plaque
Estimate: $20,000 / 30,000
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Lot 7433
Lot 7432
Lot 7434
7432
A Famille Verte Rouleau Vase
7433
A Famille Rose Globular Vase
7434
A Mille Fleur Decorated Vase
Early 20th Century
Republic Period
Qianlong Mark, Republic Period
Decorated with a multitude of flowers, animals and
symbols, the mouth, neck and foot with various decorative bands.
Decorated with raised enamel to depict various auspicious objects and symbols, all on a cracked-ice
ground, the base with a six-character Kangxi period
hallmark reading ‘Ju Shun Mei Yu Tang Zhi’.
Painted with a profusion of flowers in vivid famille
rose enamels against a black ground, the base bearing a Qianlong six-character mark.
Estimate: $1,000 / 1,500
Provenance:
Estimate: $2,000 / 3,000
Provenance:
Estimate: $900 / 1,300
Provenance:
Mr. and Mrs. (Josefine) Ernst Hermann Thunig,
acquired in Shanghai during the 1930s and 1940s,
and thence by descent within the family to the current owner.
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Lot 7435
7435
Two Famille Rose Porcelain Plaques
Republic Period, By Wang Qi (1884-1937)
The first is painted with a bearded gentleman, possibly the God of Happiness,
accompanied by a female attendant under a willow tree, with two seals of the
artist; the second is a scene of a bearded gentleman watching a boy playing
with firecrackers, dated to 1931, also with two seals of the artist.
15 1/2 x 10 inches (39.4 x 25.4 cm) each
Estimate: $20,000 / 30,000
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7436
A Pair of Famille Rose
Porcelain Plaques
Late 20th Century
With one depicting seven magpies in
a garden with prunus and peony, and
the other depicting three egrets in a
pond with reed and other flowers,
each inscribed, dated to 1998, signed
Zhang Hongwei, and with three seals,
wood frames.
41 x 12 inches (104.1 x 30.5 cm) each
excluding frame
Estimate: $6,000 / 8,000
End of auction
Lot 7436
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Marks, Seals and Signatures
7008
7012
7013
7015
7016
7017
7018
7022
7023
7024
7026
7027
7028
7029
7041
7041
7047
7050
7050
7050
7050
7120
7170
7170
7172
7173
7174
7175
7176
7177
7177
7180
7186
7197
7198
7199
108
7199
7202
7204
7211
7218
7219
7220
7221
7230
7250
7260
7279
7374
7375
7376
7381
7383
7384
7384
7386
7386
7387
7387
7388
7389
7389
7392
7393
7395
7399
7400
7401
7402
7403
7404
7407
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7408
7409
7410
7411
7411
7413
7414
7415
7416
7418
7419
7421
7422
7423
7424
7426
7429
7429
7429
7430
7431
7434
7435
7436
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1.
2.
3.
4.
Now inviting
quality consignments
for our Winter
2014 auctions.
We are currently seeking consignments
of fine art, American and European
furniture, decorative arts, Asian art and
fine jewelry and timepieces.
To schedule a private appointment
or to inquire about consigning please
contact Tammie Chambless at
(510) 227-2530.
5.
6.
7.
8.
1. Qi Baishi (1864-1957):
Rabbits Under Osmanthus Tree
Ink and color on paper, Sold for $379,000
2. Jade, 14K White Gold Necklace, Sold for $44,250
3. Royal Vienna Enameled Clock with Four Faces
and Compartment Fitted with Four Drawers
Sold for $27,140
4. Tiffany Studios Landscape Window
Sold for $236,000
5. Herman Miller Eames Lounge Chair and Ottoman
Sold for $2,360
6. Ruth Lanier Asawa (Californian 1926-2013)
Wire Sculpture, tied wire branching
wall mounted wreath
Sold for $102,660
7. Armin Carl Hansen (Californian 1886-1957)
“Norwegian Fishermen”
Oil on artist canvas board
Sold for $55,460
8. Vienna Amphora Turn Teplitz “Fates”
Porcelain Vase
Sold for $18,880
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at Auction. Please read carefully.
By registering to bid at auction, in person, or
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All property and every lot for sale in our catalogue
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or announced prior to or during a sale by Michaan’s
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as used herein all refer to Michaan’s Auctions. Unless
otherwise indicated in the catalogue or at time of
sale, MA acts at all times solely as the agent for the
seller. All sales shall be deemed to occur in
California regardless whether by telephone, mail or
through the Internet or the physical location of the
buyer.
DEFINITIONS
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upon the fall of the auctioneer’s hammer.
Buyer’s premium: The amount paid by the buyer as a
percentage of the hammer price and in addition
thereto.
Purchase price: The aggregate of the hammer, buyer’s
premium and applicable taxes or other fees, if any, as
may be required by law.
Reserve: The minimum price at which the lot may be
sold.
Buyer: The person or entity who buys property at
auction or private sale.
Consignor: The seller, or the seller’s representative,
on behalf of whom we are selling the Property.
Lot: The single item or group of items offered by us
for sale.
Property: The item or items comprising an auction
lot being offered for sale.
BUYER’S PREMIUM
The Buyer shall pay a Buyer’s Premium which shall
be retained by MA as follows:
Eighteen percent (18%) of the first $250,000.00 of
the bid price, twelve percent (12%) of the amount of
the bid price above $250,000.00 up to and including
$1,000,000.00, and ten percent (10%) of the amount
of the bid price over $1,000,000.00. If you choose
to pay by credit card (Visa, Mastercard or Discover
only) or any other form of payment, the buyer’s premium is twenty-one percent (21%) of the first
$250,000.00 of the bid price, fifteen percent (15%)
of the amount of the bid price above $250,000.00
up to and including $1,000,000.00, and twelve percent (12%) of the amount of the bid price over
$1,000,000.00. Internet Buyer’s Premium is twenty-three percent (23%) of the first $250,000.00 of
the bid price and eighteen percent (18%) of the
amount of the bid price over $250,000.00.
TERMS OF SALE
a. The Purchase of and Payment for Property
The sale of a lot shall be to the highest bidder as
determined by the auctioneer, in accord with these
Conditions of Sale. Title to the lot shall pass with
the fall of the Auctioneer’s hammer. Buyer shall pay
the Purchase price, as defined above, and such other
fees as may be due, in full, within seven (7) days of
the auction sale. Sale is not final and property will
not be released to Buyer until good funds for all
amounts due, are received by MA. Payment may be
made (i) in cash, (ii) by wire transfer (additional $15
fee), (iii) by money order or other guaranteed funds,
or (iv) by personal check (when buyer’s credit is
approved). No lot shall be transferred by Buyer to
another person until the sale is final. In the event of
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partial payment for any lot or lots we shall apply
payments, in our discretion, to the lot or lots we
select. The Buyer grants MA a security interest in
the purchased Property, and we may retain as collateral any property purchased and any funds in our
possession, to secure a Buyer’s obligations to us, if
any. We retain the rights of a secured party under
the California Commercial Code. All fees, taxes, premiums or other sums due and not paid pursuant to
this paragraph shall bear interest at 1.5 % per month
from the 8th day following the sale to the date paid
in full.
b. Collection of Property
Upon transfer of title, Buyer assumes full responsibility, including risk of loss and damage, for the
Property. Purchased property shall be removed at
Buyer’s expense within fifteen (15) days after the
sale becomes final. Property not removed shall be
subject to a service fee of $50, and a storage fee, if
retained by MA, of 1% of the purchase price per
month. MA may also, in its sole discretion, elect to
place the Property in a public storage facility at the
Buyer’s sole risk, responsibility and expense.
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If, for any reason whatsoever, we are unable to deliver the purchased Property to the Buyer, MA shall be
liable to the Buyer only for the Purchase price paid
by the Buyer and in no event shall we be liable for
incidental or consequential damages, including, but
not limited to, business interruption or loss of profit.
d. Available Shipping
As a service to the purchaser, MA may be able to
pack and ship items as set forth in the provisions for
shipping in the paragraph following the terms and
conditions of sale.
THE AUCTION PROCEDURE
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Bidders must register in advance to bid at auction.
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the auction. (c) When intending to bid in person, pre
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auctioneer may refuse to recognize any person not
registered and not having a paddle number. MA
reserves the right at its sole discretion, to refuse
anyone the right to register and participate at an
auction.
b. Announcements
We may, at the commencement of, or during the
Auction, announce changes in or modifications to
the Conditions of Sale or descriptions of Property.
c. Absentee Bids
For a Buyer’s convenience, absentee bids will be
accepted, when properly executed and submitted in
a timely manner. However, we neither accept any
responsibility to an absentee bidder, nor any liability
whatsoever for a failure to execute the absentee bid
for any reason. In the event that identical multiple
absentee bids are the highest bids received for the
same lot then the earliest received of the competing
absentee bids shall prevail at that bid amount.
d. Auctioneer’s Discretion
The Auctioneer has the absolute discretion to 1)
pass a lot or withdraw it from sale at any time prior
to its actual sale; 2) refuse to recognize any bidder;
3) refuse to recognize any bid; 4) resolve any dispute
between bidders or resolve any doubtful bid by
deciding who is the successful bidder or nullifying
the auction of the lot and reoffering it for sale. The
Auctioneer’s decision is binding as to disputes arising at auction. If a dispute arises post sale, our
records of the sale shall be conclusive. Both the
Auctioneer and MA shall be without any liability
whatsoever resulting from the exercise of the discretion referred to herein.
e. Reserves
All Property is offered for sale subject to a Reserve
unless otherwise stated by us at time of sale. MA
may protect the Reserve by an initial bid or continued bidding on behalf of the consignor. Any bids by
MA staff after the Reserve is met shall be made only
on behalf or registered bidders. Neither the consignor nor an agent or representative of the consignor is allowed to bid on their own property.
DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES
Except for warranty of title, neither we nor the
Consignor make any warranties, guarantees or representation, express or implied, with respect to the
Property, including, but not necessarily limited to,
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importance, quality, quantity, rarity, period, culture,
source or origin, are presented as statements of
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MA’s disclaimer of liability covers information contained in catalogues, and all other printed material
published by us, including condition reports. Buyers
assume the responsibility to inspect the Property
and make their own decision as to the nature, quality and value of the Property.
Neither MA nor the Consignor make any warranty
or representation with regard to the existence of or
the transfer of intellectual property rights, except
and to such extent as may, from time to time, be
explicitly stated.
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except as stated in the catalog or in any written
addendum.
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All estimates of value as published in our Catalogues
or elsewhere are statements of qualified opinion as
to the range of the price a willing buyer might pay
for the Property at auction. The actual price paid at
auction or subsequently, may vary substantially from
the estimates. MA shall not be liable for any such
differential.
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If a Buyer fails to pay for purchased Property, or
otherwise does not comply with these Conditions
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all remedies available in law, to MA and to the
Consignor, the Buyer shall be liable for the entire
Purchase price. Additionally, at our option, we may
either cancel the sale and retain all payments made
by Buyer as well as retain any and all Property of
Buyer in our possession as security against payment
of the sums in default, or we may re-offer the
Property for sale, at auction or privately, without
reserve. Buyer shall be liable to us and the
Consignor for the additional fees, commissions and
costs on both sales (including handling, storage and
court costs and attorney’s fees) resulting from the
cancellation or resale of the Property and in the
event of resale, any deficiency which may result.
RESCISSION
The sole and exclusive remedy, available only to the
original buyer, is the limited right of rescission set
forth herein. MA will cancel the sale of Property if
the original buyer establishes to our satisfaction that
there has been a breach of the Consignor’s warranty of title, or that the identification of Authorship*
of the Property as set forth in Bold Type Heading is
not substantially correct, based on a fair reading of
the Catalogue (as may be amended by posted or
announced changes.) IN ALL INSTANCES, YOU
MUST GIVE WRITTEN NOTICE TO US WITHIN
30 DAYS OF THE SALE OF THE PROPERTY,
SETTING FORTH THE BASIS FOR YOUR CLAIM
AND, AT YOUR SOLE EXPENSE AND RISK,
RETURN THE PROPERTY IN QUESTION TO MA
WITHIN SEVEN (7) DAYS AFTER NOTICE IS
GIVEN AND IN THE SAME CONDITION AS
WHEN SOLD. Upon review of the claim and the
property, if we are satisfied with the bases for your
claim and the property is in the same condition it
was in when sold, MA will rescind the sale and
return to you the Purchase price, unless we have
already remitted funds to the Consignor. In that
event, and at MA’s sole discretion, MA shall either
pay you as provided above, or shall pay you only
that portion of the Purchase price retained by us
(the Seller’s commission, the buyer’s premium and
any sales taxes collected) and on your behalf make
demand on the Consignor for the balance and upon
receipt of the funds remit same to you. Should the
Consignor refuse to return the funds to you or to
MA, we shall disclose the Consignor’s identity and
assign to you any and all rights MA may have against
the Consignor. Any and all liability MA may have as
agent for the Consignor shall thereupon terminate.
BUYER EXPRESSLY UNDERSTANDS AND AGREES
THAT MA SHALL HAVE NO OTHER LIABILITY
TO THE BUYER EXCEPT FOR THE RETURN OF
THE PURCHASE PRICE AND THAT IN NO EVENT
SHALL MA BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES,
INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO
INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL OR
COMPENSATORY DAMAGES OR LOSS OF
PROFIT OR BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY.
*Authorship refers to the maker or creator of the
Property, and the period, social culture, and origin of
the Property as stated in the Bold Type Heading for
a given lot in our catalogue. It does not refer to the
descriptions which may be contained in the information below the Bold Type Heading.
MISCELLANEOUS
a. Modification: No modification or amendment of
the Conditions of Sale shall bind MA unless contained in a writing signed by MA, except as may be
posted or published as noted above or verbally
announced at time of sale.
b. Severability: If, for any reason, any part of the
Conditions of Sale is held to be invalid or unenforceable, the remaining portion shall be valid and
enforceable.
c. Successors and Assigns: The Conditions of Sale shall
be binding on all the heirs and assigns of the Buyers
and bidders and inure to the benefit of MA’s successors and assigns.
d. Jurisdiction, Venue, Choice of Law: Dispute resolution
shall occur in Alameda County, California, USA. The
provisions of the Conditions of Sale will be construed and disputes determined by application of
California Law, without regard to conflicts of law.
e. Notice, Service of Process: Buyers agree to accept all
notices and service of process relating to dispute
resolution at the address provided by Buyer on any
registration forms required to be executed as a condition of bidding in our auction.
f. Dispute Resolution: All disputes and claims arising
out of or relating to events and actions covered
herein, brought by or against us, shall be resolved by
mediation or binding arbitration in accord with the
procedures set forth below. This provision does not
apply to claims brought by the Buyer directly against
the Consignor, including, but not limited to any
action brought pursuant to the rescission provisions
noted above
OPTIONAL PROVISIONS
Shipping, insurance packaging and handling of purchased lots is at the risk and expense of the purchaser. As a service to the purchaser, MA may ship
appropriate items solely via United Parcel Service,
(UPS) Ground. MA will not ship by any other method including USPS, and property requiring freight
shipment. MA will, in no event insure the property
whether or not packaged and shipped by MA. MA
shall not, under any circumstances, be liable for the
loss, theft or damage to property, including, but not
limited to selection of shipper, the acts or omissions
of any shipper or the acts or omissions occurring in
packing for shipment. It is the purchaser’s responsibility to obtain a shipping quote for any lot being
offered, from an outside shipper, prior to the auction date. (As a courtesy, MA may provide quotes
for items to be shipped via UPS). Post sale determination of shipping costs does not constitute grounds
for cancellation of any purchase made at auction.
Purchasers are advised that large and fragile items
can be expensive and that MA will ship no property
without first obtaining consent from the purchaser
and only after packing and shipping costs have been
disclosed by MA. When MA is to pack and ship, MA
will provide to the bidder with a quote for cost of
packing and handling and the UPS fee. The Purchaser
is responsible for any insurance of the shipment.
Shipment will not be made until both all sums due
MA including the shipping and handling fees as quoted, and written confirmation is received that insurance has been waived or has been obtained by purchaser. Shipment may take up to 21 days after payment is received.
MEDIATION AND ARBITRATION
PROCEDURES
(a) Within 30 days of written notice that there is a
dispute, the parties or their representatives may
meet at a time and place mutually agreed upon, to
mediate their differences. If the parties agree, a
mediator acceptable to the parties shall be selected.
The mediator shall be an attorney, trained in mediation techniques and familiar with commercial law
and the California Uniform Commercial Code
(UCC). The mediator’s fees shall be shared equally
and paid by all parties. At the mediation, all parties
shall have actual authority to settle the dispute. Any
statements made during, and all aspects of, the mediation process shall be kept confidential and shall not
be admissible in any subsequent arbitration or judicial proceeding. Any resolution shall be confidential.
(b) If the parties cannot agree to mediation, or if
mediation does not resolve the dispute, or in any
event no longer than 60 days after receipt of written notice referred to above, the parties shall submit
the dispute for binding arbitration before a single
neutral arbitrator jointly selected, or absent agreement, selected from the panel of Arbitrators provided by the American Arbitration Association (AAA).
If, within 15 days, the parties cannot agree on an
arbitrator, then AAA shall select one (1) person as
arbitrator in accord with AAA rules. The arbitrator
shall be an attorney, experienced in commercial law
and with the UCC. The arbitrator shall be required
to follow the law in making his award, and the award
shall be in writing and shall set forth findings of fact
and legal conclusions.(c) The arbitration shall occur
within 60 days of the selection of the arbitrator, in
either Oakland or San Francisco, California, unless
the parties agree to another location. Discovery
and the procedure for the Arbitration shall, unless
otherwise agreed to by the parties, follow the procedures and policies of AAA governing commercial
arbitration, subject however to the following modifications:
1. All arbitration proceedings shall be confidential.
None of the parties nor the arbitrator, may disclose
the existence, content or results of the arbitration
without the written consent of all parties.
2. The parties shall attempt to agree on the issues to
be arbitrated, or identify the disputed issues in writing no later than 45 days prior to arbitration.
3. Unless otherwise agreed by the parties, discovery,
if any, shall be limited as follows: (a) Requests for no
more than 10 clearly identified categories of documents, to be provided to the requesting party within
14 days of written request therefore; (b)
Depositions: No more than two (2) per party, provided however, the deposition(s) are to be completed within one (1) day; (c) Compliance with the
above shall be enforced by the arbitrator in accord
with California law.
4. Each party shall have no longer than eight (8)
hours to present its position. The entire hearing
before the arbitrator shall not take longer than
three (3) consecutive days, unless all parties agree
otherwise in writing.
The award shall be made in writing no more than 30
days following the end of the proceeding. Judgment
upon the award rendered by the arbitrator may be
entered by any court having jurisdiction thereof.
Each party shall bear its own attorney’s fees and
costs in connection with the proceedings and shall
share equally the fees and expenses of the arbitrator.
This auction is being conducted in compliance with
section 2328 of the Commercial Code, section 535
of the Penal Code, and provisions of the California
Civil Code.
Bonded pursuant to California Civil Code sec
1812.600 et seq. Bond # 71393954
ASIAN ARTS DISCLAIMER:
We are aware of the many types of treatments and/
or enhancements used today on jade. The purpose is
to improve their appearance, i.e. color and/or clarity.
Techniques like bleaching, dying and impregnation
are just a few techniques known today. These treatments are not detectable using standard gemological
procedures. Not all are permanent. Prospective buyers are therefore reminded that unless otherwise
noted in the description(s),1 it must be assumed that
some form of enhancement may have been used.
Accompanied by a laboratory report stating natural, no evidence of treatment.
1
PROPERTY MADE FROM OR CONTAINING
MATERIALS FROM ENDANGERED OR
PROTECTED SPECIES
Property that contains any percentage of material
made or potentially made from endangered and/or
other protected species of wildlife are, as a courtesy,
marked in the catalogue with the symbol “ * ”.
Michaan’s Auctions does not accept any responsibility or liability for failing to mark such lots. Such
material includes, but is not limited to, ivory, tortoise
shell, crocodile skin, whalebone, rhinoceros horn,
some species of coral and certain woods.
Prospective buyers are advised that several countries completely prohibit importation of property
made, all or in part, of proscribed materials. Some
countries require special permits, such as a CITES
permit, from the relevant regulating authority in the
countries of exportation and importation as well.
Potential buyers intending to import the property
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into another country should be familiar with the relevant customs laws and regulations prior to bidding
on property containing wildlife material. Regulations
may vary as the U.S. prohibits importation of articles
containing material(s) from species it has designated
endangered or threatened if the articles are less
than 100 years old.
It shall be the potential buyer’s sole responsibility to research and satisfy the requirements of
any laws and regulations that apply to the
import and export of property as described in
the aforementioned paragraphs. Prospective buyers must also note that the inability or delay in
obtaining permits, licenses or other permissions
to import or export property containing potentially regulated wildlife material will not constitute a basis for rescission or cancellation of the
sale of said property or the delay in payment of
purchased items in accordance with the
Conditions of Sale.
No Guarantee of Authenticity for
Chinese Paintings
Currently, scholarship in the field of Chinese paintings precludes the ability to provide unqualified
statements or opinions as to Authorship or date of
execution. The terms for RESCISSION in the
Conditions of Sale, (as set out on our internet site
and in our catalogues) does not apply to Chinese
paintings. However, if within twenty (20) days of the
sale of any such lot, the original purchaser provides
Michaan’s with both written notice that the lot is a
forgery, and within seven (7) days after written
notice, said purchaser returns the lot to us in the
same condition as when sold and demonstrates to
our satisfaction that the lot is a forgery, Michaan’s
will rescind the sale and refund the purchase price
received to the original purchaser. “Forgery” for the
purposes of this provision, is defined as a work created with the intent to deceive.
Definitions of Authorship:
This is to qualify the relationship between the object
and the named person in the catalogue. The following conventions for attribution are used by
Michaan’s Auctions:
Giovanni Bellini: In our opinion a work by the artist. When the artist’s forename(s) is not known, a
series of asterisks, followed by the surname of the
artist, whether preceded by an initial or not, indi-
cates that in our opinion the work is by the artists
named.
Attributed to Giovanni Bellini: In our opinion
probably a work by the artist but less certainty as
to authorship is expressed than in the preceding
category.
Studio of Giovanni Bellini: In our opinion a work
by an unknown hand in the studio of the artist,
which may or may not have been executed under
the artist’s direction.
Circle of Giovanni Bellini: In our opinion a work
by an as yet unidentified by distinct hand, closely
associated with the named artist but not necessarily
his pupil.
Style of ......; follower of Giovanni Bellini: In
our opinion a work by a painter working in the artist’s style, contemporary or near contemporary, but
not necessarily his pupil.
Manner of Giovanni Bellini: In our opinion a
work in the style of the artist and of a later date.
after Giovanni Bellini: In our opinion a copy of a
known work of the artist.
The term signed and/or dated and/or inscribed
means that in our opinion the signature and/or date
and/or inscription are from the hand of the artist.
The term bears a signature and/or date and/or
inscription means that in our opinion the signature
and/or date and/or inscription have been added by
another hand.
“bearing signature...”/”bearing date...”/”bearing inscription...” In our opinion the signature/
date/inscription is by a hand other than that of the
artist.
Typical Headings:
FURNITURE
George III Mahogany Chest of Drawers
Third Quarter 18th Century
This heading, with date included, means that the
piece is, in our opinion, of the period indicated
with no major alterations or restorations.
George III Mahogany Chest of Drawers
This heading, without the inclusion of the date,
indicates that, in our opinion, the piece, while
basically of the period, has undergone significant
restoration and alteration.
George III Style Mahogany Chest of Drawers
The inclusion of the word “style” in the heading
indicates that, in our opinion, the piece was made
as an intentional reproduction of an earlier style.
BRONZES
Antoine-Louis Barye
This heading indicates that the casting and patination were done by the artist or with his direct
authorization or supervsion.
Cast After a Model by Antoine-Louis Barye
This heading indicates that the casting and patination of a known Barye model were done by
another, i.e., artisans at the F. Barbedienne or
other foundry.
CERAMICS
Meissen Porcelain Cup and Saucer
Late 19th Century
This states that the cup and saucer were made at
the Meissen factory in the last quarter of the
19th Century.
Meissen Porcelain Cup and a Saucer
Late 19th Century
Again, this states that the cup and saucer were made
at the Meissen factory in the last quarter of the
19th Century, but it also indicates that the cup and
saucer may not have been “born” together.
Circa 1900
This states that the cup and saucer are of Meissen
style, and although of the date specified, not necessarily made at the Meissen factory.
‘Meissen’ Porcelain Cup and a Saucer
19th Century
This states that the cup and saucer are of Meissen
style, and although of the date specified, not necessarily made at the Meissen factory.
The title without a specific date simply states that
the pieces were made at the Meissen factory but
does not specify when, implying that their age is
questionable.
Bid Increments
Minimum Value
from US $ 0
from US $ 50
from US $ 200
from US $ 500
from US $ 1,000
from US $ 2,000
from US $ 5,000
from US $ 10,000
from US $ 20,000
from US $ 50,000
from US $ 100,000
from US $ 200,000
Maximum Value
to US $ 49
to US $ 199
to US $ 499
to US $ 999
to US $ 1,999
to US $ 4,999
to US $ 9,999
to US $ 199,99
to US $ 49,999
to US $ 100,000
to US $ 199,999
to US $ 499,999
Expected Bid Increment
US $ 5
US $ 10
US $ 25
US $ 50
US $ 100
US $ 250
US $ 500
US $ 1,000
US $ 2,500
US $ 5,000
US $ 10,000
US $ 25,000
All increments may vary at auctioneer’s discretion.
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Michaan’s Auctions
2751 Todd Street
Alameda, CA 94501
(800) 380-9822 or (510) 740-0220
www.michaans.com
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