Showplace Live Estate Auction
Sunday March 20 at 12pm
40 West 25th Street, NYC
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212.633.6063 ext. 808
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NEW YORK CITY — Showplace in New York will celebrate Asia Week with a grouping of 280 lots from New York City metropolitan area estates on March 20. Highlights include a pair of Indian Nandi sculptures, a large Mongolian censer, a Chinese Chang’e Crane Maiden scroll painting, a Southeast Asian Khmer torso and a pair of Chinese cloisonne fu lions. Other highlights include a Han dynasty court lady, Chinese porcelain and an Andre Planson impressionistic painting. The sale also includes a collection of silver, jewelry, designer costume jewelry and furnishings.

Arts from India open with two lots of Indian stone carvings depicting reclining Nandi, or Vrishabha, the bull vahana of the god Shiva, outfitted with saddles, bridles and headpieces upon the forehead, on rectangular bases. Next is a Kishangarh pichhwai depicting Krishna on his throne attended by Gopis around a pond with two peacocks with a label stitched to cloth backing indicating “Krishna And Gopis Near A Pond, Eighteenth Century Kishangarh School” previously belonging to the Allen Waller India collection. Also of note is an antique Indian stone carving depicting Shiva. The piece was likely once part of a large ancient altar idol sculpture with multiple deities and is currently mounted upon a hardwood stand.
March 20 is replete with Chinese antiques. The collection opens with an Eighteenth Century Chinese export hand painted gouache on paper six-panel folding screen/room divider, featuring flowers, plants and a multitude of exotic birds and insects. The piece was later mounted on a wood panel screen along with a decorative hand-painted border. Next is a pair of early Twentieth Century large Chinese cloisonne guardian lions. The female has a cub under her paw and the male has a ball, both with a hanging bell around the neck and on stepped bases with separate wooden platforms. The pair has provenance from the collection of fashion designer Vivienne Tam. Next is a pair of Nineteenth Century Chinese cloisonne candlestick holders in the shape of blue elephants adorned with intricate bridles and saddles decorated with si bats upon a yellow ground framed by cobalt blue Greek key geometric borders and topped with gold and polychrome urn-shaped holders. The pair is followed by a Chinese bronze censer fang ding of rectangular form, cast with a scrolling geometric motif with animal figures and taotie.

Next is a late Qing to early Republic Chinese “100 Boys” porcelain plate. The interior is painted in fine detail with gilt accents depicting a popular motif of boys at a festival celebrating with a Dragon Dance and a Dragon Boat. Next is an Eighteenth Century Chinese export armorial teaware set, consisting of a tea caddy and cover and a pair of tea bowls and saucers with the arms of Scholten of Amsterdam impaling Hogenberg of Holland, with provenance from the Benjamin F. Edwards collection.

Also of note is a large Mongolian silver censer inlaid with coral, turquoise, lapis lazuli and jade carvings of various animals and birds. The sale also includes several lots of antique Tibetan hand painted thangkas. Highlights include a Southeast Asian Khmer torso of a female deity, wearing a tied and pleated sampot, in Baphuon style, Angkor period, mounted on a stand.

Japanese highlights include an Edo period Rinpa School two-panel screen with hand painted flowers on a gilt ground, with a bronze, gold, copper and silver floral silk border within a black lacquer frame.

Silver highlights include a Kirk & Son sterling silver flatware set for six with extras and serving pieces in the Old Maryland Plain pattern (approximate total weight 105.95 troy ounces), a pair of early Twentieth Century Tiffany and Company entree plates (each weighing 35.49 troy ounces), and an English sterling shaped tray in the Chippendale style standing on four scroll feet, hallmarked Sheffield 1937 by Viner’s Ltd (55.3 troy ounces).

The sale also includes a collection of fine and costume jewelry, including a collection of vintage Chanel runway jewelry.

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