DALLAS — While New York City was celebrating Asia Week March 19-27, Heritage Auctions took advantage of the remote marketplace, conducting an Asian Art Auction from their Dallas headquarters on March 25. The curated sale featured nearly 220 lots of fine and decorative Asian artistry, spanning diverse regions, periods and media, including paintings, porcelain and ceramics, jade and hardstone carvings and Japanese woodblock prints. Bidders pushed a Gandharan figure of Buddha in Mahaparinirvana to the auction’s top price: $30,000, including buyer’s premium ($25/35,000). The reclining terracotta and wood-mounted Buddha, made in the Fifth or Sixth Century, measured 16½ inches long and had a “serene and introspective” expression, conveying “solemnity and quiet grace, capturing the profound doctrinal significance of the Buddha’s release from the cycle of rebirth,” as described by the auction catalog. Additional highlights from Heritage’s Asia Week offerings will run in a later issue.
