ASIAN ART
Lot 1
Pair of mirrors
China, Han dynasty (?)
Bronze, circular in shape, both with widespread encrustations.
The largest 3.3 in.
Starting price: € 100
Lot 15
Two taoist immortals
China, Qing dynasty
Dehua porcelain ('blanc de chine'), the two deities depicted seated.
One restored.
8.5 x 3.7 x 2.8 in.
Starting price: € 200
Lot 16
Pair of cranes
China , Qing dynasty, 18th Century
Porcelain, the two birds standing on a rock.
Minor defects.
8.5 x 3 x 2.2 in.
Starting price: € 200
Lot 17
Pair of Puxian on elephant
China, Qing dynasty, Kangxi period
Dehua porcelain ('blanc de chine'), the two bodhisattvas of benevolence (Samantabhadra in Sanskrit) seated on the back of an elephant, which in turn is supported by a semicircular plinth decorated on the front with a relief floral motif.
Restoration.
8.5 x 4.5 x 2.4 in.
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Starting price: € 200
Lot 21
Group of two small boxes with lid
China, Ming dynasty, 16th-17th Century
'Blue and white' porcelain, one with floral decoration, the other with geometric ornament.
The largest 2 x 3.2 in.
Starting price: € 100
Lot 22
Jar
China, 17th Century
Porcelain painted in underglaze cobalt blue.
16.1 x 13 in.
The interest of this jar lies in its evidently incomplete decoration. The polychrome enamels applied in the second firing, with which it would have become an example of wucai porcelain, are missing.
Starting price: € 500
Lot 24
Water pot, tabaizun
China, 20th Century
'Blue and white' porcelain, the body with a decoration of figures in a landscape, a chilong dragon in pronounced relief on the shoulder.
3.3 x 3.5 in.
Starting price: € 100
Lot 28
Group of two objects
China, 20th Century
Celadon glazed ceramic, a brush rest mountain peaks-shaped and a water dropper boat-shaped.
The largest 3 x 6.3 x 2.2 in.
Starting price: € 150
Lot 29
Group with two figures
China, 20th Century
Porcelain, depicting a standing female figure accompanied by a child, both on a pedestal.
8.5 x 4.1 x 3.9 in.
Starting price: € 100
Lot 30
Budai with children
China, 20th Century
Porcelain with polychrome enamel decoration, the seated Buddhist deity with a rosary in his left hand and the edge of a sack in his right, five children climbing on his body.
11.8 x 10.2 x 8.5 in.
Starting price: € 200
Lot 34
Vase
China, 20th Century
Porcelain painted with polychrome enamels and gold, the orange ground with gold arabesques with reserves of various shapes with landscapes, "Jurentang" mark at the center of the base.
15.7 x 9.8 in.
Starting price: € 600
Lot 38
One jar and a bowl
China, 20th Century
Porcelain, the jar with a 'blue and white' floral decoration, the bowl with polychrome decoration.
The jar 6.7 x 10.6 in.
Starting price: € 100
Lot 42
Ewer, kendi
China, 19th-20th Century
Green-glazed ceramic, the body with a dragon decoration in relief, an example of production explicitly intended for South-East Asia.
7.9 x 5.9 x 6.3 in.
Starting price: € 150
Lot 54
Incense burner
China, 20th Century
Green jade with brown inclusions, the globular body resting on three feet, handles with a movable ring and a wheel-shaped cover finial, relief decoration of archaic taste.
3.1 x 4.3 x 3 in.
Starting price: € 200
Lot 67
Pair of figures
China, 19th Century
Carved, lacquered gilt-wood, depicting a pair of figures standing on a base.
9.3 x 5.1 x 2.8 in.
Starting price: € 100
Lot 68
Pillow
China, early 20th Century
Lacquered partially gilt-wood, decorated with dragon, phoenix, flowers and fruits, metal fittings.
Small defects.
4.1 x 10.4 x 3.7 in.
Starting price: € 100
Lot 69
Chang'e
China, 20th Century
Carved wood, the standing deity with the rabbit in her hands, with which she lives in her palace on the moon.
8.1 x 3.9 x 3.1 in.
Starting price: € 100
Lot 89
Pair of vases
China, 20th Century
Porcelain painted with polychrome enamels, the neck with floral meanders, the body with a decoration of horses in the landscape with inscription and seals, both marked at the center of the base, on wooden bases.
13 x 7.1 in.
Starting price: € 300
Lot 90
Vase
China, 20th Century
Porcelain with polychrome enamel decoration, the body with a scene of a deity receiving an offer from a child, mark at the center of the base.
5.3 x 1.7 in.
Starting price: € 300
Lot 96
Tile
China, 20th Century
Porcelain painted with polychrome enamels, depicting a composition of trees and rocks, inscribed with a seal at the top left.
Tile 28.7 x 8.7 in.
Frame 49.2 x 14.2 x 0.8 in.
Starting price: € 300
Lot 97
Vase
China, 20th Century
Porcelain with red spotted glaze, the shoulder with two small lion's head handles.
5.9 x 4.3 in.
Starting price: € 100
Lot 99
Pair of bottle vases
China, 20th Century
Porcelain painted in monochrome with a pink-purple enamel with a refined decoration of birds and flowering branches, apocryphal Yongzxheng mark at the center of both bases, on wooden bases.
15 x 8.3 in.
Starting price: € 250
Lot 102
Jar
China, 20th Century
Porcelain with qingbai glaze, light geometric motif incisions on the body, small semicircular handles on the shoulder.
4.5 x 3.9 in.
Starting price: € 300
Lot 103
Group of three vessels with cover
China, 20th Century
Porcelain painted with polychrome enamels with figures in the landscape.
The highest 7.5 x 7.9 in.
Starting price: € 100
Lot 105
Painting
China, early 20th Century
Ink and colours on silk, gilt-wood frame, depicting a composition set within a glimpse of a landscape with trees, rocks and pavilions, on the right side a group of Taoist deities
surrounded by children and animals.
16.3 x 22.4 in.
Starting price: € 300
Lot 106
Painting
China, Yao, 19th Century
Ink and colors on paper, large procession of figures, within plexiglass frame.
9.1 x 84.6 in.
Starting price: € 300
Lot 109
Group of three paintings
China, 20th Century
Ink and colors on silk, compositions of figures in the landscape, two with inscription and seal, original silk frame, wooden frame and protective glass.
17.5 x 25.6 in.
including frame
Starting price: € 150
Lot 111
QI BAISHI 1864-1957
Cicada on red leaves
Polychrome print.
13.07 x 9.41 in.
including frame
Starting price: € 100
Lot 113
Emperor and Empress
China, 20th Century
Carved, incised and inked bone, the two figures sitting on a throne, dressed in sumptuous clothes and with a necklace of spheres on their chests, the emperor with a ruyi sceptre in his left hand, the empress with a small present in her right.
33.9 x 15 x 11.8 in.
Starting price: € 3.000
Lot 115
Seal
China, 20th Century
Shoushan stone, deer-shaped finial.
3.7 x 0.8 in.
Starting price: € 300
Lot 124
Print
Japan, 19th-20th Century
Large woodcut print depicting a deity surrounded by mythological animals in a landscape; within wooden frame and protective glass.
41.7 x 24.2 in.
including frame
Starting price: € 80
Lot 137
UTAGAWA HIROSHIGE 1797-1858
Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido (Tokaido gojusan tsugi) 1960s of the 20th Century
Luxury edition with woodcut reproduction of the prints from Hiroshige's famous series originally published in 1833-1834.
Each print 10.4 x 15.7 in.
Starting price: € 1.500
Lot 139
Plate
Japan, Meiji period
'Blue and white' porcelain, the exposed surface featuring a lady dressed in a flowing kimono and seated inside a room with screens, her left arm resting on a small table and her right one holding a letter.
2.4 x 7.9 in.
Starting price: € 100
Lot 143
Vase
Japan, Meiji period
Kutani-type porcelain with polychrome enamel and gold decoration, the body with some Buddhist rakan with a tiger in the landscape.
15.6 x 5.9 in.
Starting price: € 150
Lot 150
Tea bowl
Japan, 20th Century
Raku-type ceramic with white coating, a kintsugi restoration with gold lacquer.
2.8 x 4.5 in.
Starting price: € 100
Lot 154
Tea service
Japan, Meiji period
Porcelain painted with polychrome enamels and gold, consisting of a teapot, sugar bowl and milk jug, decorated with figures in a landscape.
The teapot 7.9 x 5.5 x 8.7 in.
Starting price: € 100
Lot 155
Plate
Japan, Meiji period
Nabeshima-type porcelain, the exposed surface with a flowering branch of camellias.
2 x 7.1 in.
Starting price: € 100
Lot 162
Okimono
Japan, Meiji period
Dark bronze patina, composed of two elements, depicting an eagle perched on a large anchor.
13.6 x 9.4 x 7.9 in.
Starting price: € 100
Lot 163
Vase with cover
Japan, Meiji period
Metal decorated in polychrome cloisonné enamels with stylised floral motifs.
8.3 x 3.3 in.
Starting price: € 100
Lot 166
Incense burner
Japan, Meiji period
Bronze, circular base with three animal-headed feet that support discs and a container with the largest sides decorated with compositions of flowers and birds, mythological animal's head-shaped handles, the cover missing, the lower side closed by an ancient mirror with
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Starting price: € 150
Lot 168
Inro
Japan, 19th Century
Lacquered and gilded wood with metal and mother-of-pearl inlays, decorated on both sides in pronounced relief with floral and bird motifs, signed bottom center.
Defects and losses.
3 x 2.6 in.
Starting price: € 100
Lot 171
Tea service
Japan, Meiji period
Porcelain painted with polychrome enamels and gold, the service consisting of a teapot, milk jug, sugar bowl, twelve cups and twenty-four two size saucers, decoration of figures in a landscape, "Dai Nihon Kutani sei Kitagawa ga" mark at the center of the base.
The
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Starting price: € 500
Lot 173
Incense burner
Korea, 14th-15th Century
Bronze, modelled as a large stem cup, with engraved thin horizontal lines on the body.
7.9 x 7.3 in.
Starting price: € 800
Lot 177
Jar
Korea, 20th Century
Porcelain with greyish glaze and brown enamel decoration of a tiger amidst clouds and bamboo stems.
13.4 x 11.8 in.
The model for this decoration is a jar conserved in the Museum of Oriental Ceramics in Osaka, Ataka Collection, in Japan, dated to the 17th Century and
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Starting price: € 1.500
Lot 188
Two ritual conch shells
Tibet, 20th Century
The two ends of the shells with silver-plated metal fittings and glass inlays.
The largest 9.05 x 4.33 x 3.54 in.
Starting price: € 75
Lot 191
White Tara
Mongolia, 18th Century
Embossed copper with traces of gilding, the Buddhist deity seated in the dhyanasana position on a double lotus base, both hands in the vitarka mudra.
Losses.
7.9 x 4.5 x 3.5 in.
Starting price: € 900
Lot 194
Group with two snuff bottles and a small box with cover
Tibet, 20th Century
A horn and a bone snuff bottles, both with metal mounts, the box with turquoise flakes.
The box 1.2 x 3.1 x 2.4 in.
Starting price: € 50
Lot 222
Frieze
Ancient region of Gandhara, 2nd Century
Sculpted grey schist, the front with a composition with seven cherubs holding a garland with flowers, fruits and draperies, the left side outlined by a stylised palmette.
4.7 x 23.6 x 3.3 in.
Starting price: € 1.000
Lot 238
Head of Buddha
Thailand, Ayutthaya, 16th-17th Century
Carved stone, the face of the deity with a serene expression, a barely visible smile and half-closed eyes, on a wooden base.
14.2 x 9.8 x 9.1 in.
Starting price: € 1.500
Lot 245
Belt
Singapore or Borneo, early 20th Century
Silver, the oval-shaped buckle with a relief decoration of a sage and aquatic animals, on its sides two plaques with an ogive side decorated in relief with floral motifs, the belt with a mesh of small intersecting squares and scattered small flowers in relief.
1.1 x 35.4
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Starting price: € 200