John McInnis – Asian Collections Auction
February 25 at 10 am
76 Main St Amesbury, MA 01913
www.mcinnisauctions.com
mcinnisauctions@yahoo.com
978-388-0400
800-822-1417

AMESBURY, MASS. — An Asian collections auction featuring the personal private collection of Dr Allan Bezan of Chestnut Hill, Mass., plus other prominent estates from greater Boston, will be conducted on Saturday, February 25, starting at 10 am Eastern time, by John McInnis Auctioneers. This will be a timed online auction, with bidding offered exclusively on LiveAuctioneers.com.

The catalog is packed with nearly 700 lots of Japanese and Chinese items, to include fine art, furniture, porcelains, bronzes, ceramics, snuff bottles and more. All items will be sold to the highest bidder without reserves, and all lots will have a modest opening bid of $10. Lots 1-250 will comprise the Japanese collection; lots 275-680 will comprise the Chinese collection.

The expected top lot of the auction actually isn’t Asian at all. It’s a last-minute consignment that John McInnis Auctioneers simply had to fold into the catalog: a GIA-certified 7.53-carat diamond set in an 18K gold mount, the center diamond round brilliant cut (or European cut), boasting VS2 clarity, S-T color grade range and VS2 clarity. It’s a size 7 ($15/30,000).

Chinese furniture will feature a pair of Eighteenth Century hardwood (possibly zitan) “official’s hat” yoke back armchairs with ogee splat carved in low relief and with bat, tassel and various other geometric patterns, the legs supported by stepped stretchers ($5/10,000); and a Nineteenth Century Chinese console table, the top set with a huanghuali center panel ($4/6,000).

A Nineteenth Century Chinese bronze censer, signed and measuring 3 by 5 inches, is expected to bring $5/10,000; while a Nineteenth Century ormolu mounted famille bowl — a cast and gilt mount raised porcelain plate with four acanthus leaf-form legs — measuring 3¾ by 12 inches, should sell for $1,5/3,000.

An Eighteenth or Nineteenth Century Chinese scroll painting, pigment on paper, titled “Birds Amongst the Wetlands,” unsigned and 35 by 62 inches, framed, has an estimate of $2/4,000. Also, a Nineteenth Century signed, gilt painted Chinese panel, signed in characters, retaining an original carved pedestal and frame, 13¼ by 21½ inches, should make $2/4,000.

A 14K gold and white jade Mughal necklace sporting five oval jade plaques (each one, ½ inch by 1 inch), set with semiprecious stones, on a 17-inch chain, is expected to fetch $2/3,000. Also, an Eighteenth Century Tibetan thangka, 28 by 24 inches (framed), “Tsongkhapa” pigment on canvas laid to paperboard, should hit $1,5/3,000.

From the Japanese collection is an Eighteenth or Nineteenth Century two-panel screen, 70 by 71 inches fully opened, with nine images of the 36 poetic immortals applied to a gold leaf ground ($2/4,000). A Nineteenth Century four-panel lacquer screen with genre scenes and cartouches of fruits and flowers, the back with birds and flora, overall 72½ by 88 inches, should finish at $1/2,000.

A First-Third Century Gandhara stone figure head (possibly Bodhisattva Avalokitesvara), 7½ inches tall (11 inches, including stand) is estimated to earn $1/2,000. Also, a Meiji Japanese solid bronze eagle perched on rocks surrounded by waves, unsigned, 5½ inches tall and appearing to have been made to surmount an object with a hexagonal top, should command $1/2,000.

A large Eighteenth or Nineteenth Century Japanese earthenware tea urn covered in paper in Chinese characters and Japanese poems (the Chinese character says “Tea Lady”), 32¼ inches tall, has an estimate of $1/2,000; as does a large pair of Nineteenth Century Japanese Kutani globular vases, elaborately decorated with Buddhas, elders, dragons, birds, chinchilla and more, 20½ inches tall, signed.

A large Japanese Imari porcelain punch bowl with a scalloped bowl and rim, decorated with a Longma in the center and customary iconography, 5½ by 15 inches, is estimated to go for $1/1,500. Also, a Twentieth Century Japanese lacquered Suzuribako set fitted with brushes, an inkwell and more, measuring 2¾ by 9 by 10 inches, should ring up $700-$1,000.

Live, in-gallery exhibitions and previews will be conducted Wednesday, February 15, through Friday, February 25, from noon to 4 pm Eastern time each day. These will be conducted in the John McInnis Auctioneers gallery at 63 Clinton Street. For more information, www.mcinnisauctions.com or 978-388-0400.

Exhibition and Preview will open Wednesday, February 15th thru Friday, February 24th from 12-4 each day located at 63 Clinton St Amesbury, MA
The Personal Private Collection of Dr. Allan Bezan, Chestnut Hill and other Prominent Estates from Greater Boston
Featuring Japanese, Chinese, Fine Furniture, Porcelains, Bronzes, Ceramics, Fine Art, Snuff Bottles