By Greg Smith
This week’s picks bring you a selection of Asian art currently available at upcoming auctions and from our marketplace dealers. These exotic pieces, by both Chinese and Japanese makers, include detailed carvings, early printings, Chinese export, carved stone and much more.
GIANGUAN AUCTIONS
Sale Date: June 25, 2016
Lot 190
Qing, A Yellow-glazed Globular Vase Carved with Dragons
The vase is incised with two confronting scaly five-clawed dragons contesting a flaming pearl among clusters of ruyi clouds and scattered flames, amidst a background of cresting waves, a key-fret band encircles the mouth rim, and a turbulent wave band encircles the foot rim, the vase is covered in a vibrant yellow glaze.
Estimate: $300/500,000
DANIEL CROUCH RARE BOOKS LLP
Complete Map of All-Under-Heaven of the Unified Everlasting Qing Empire
Large woodcut map printed in 16 sections on eight sheets, dissected and mounted on linen, housed within quarter red morocco pull-off slipcase, lettered in gilt to spine. It is dated the nineteenth year of the Jiaqing reign, 1814.
Price Upon Request
KAMINSKI AUCTIONS
Sale Date: June 18, 2016
Lot 5400
Chinese Famille Rose Bowl
Porcelain, with blue and white interior, famille rose floral exterior decoration
Estimate: $1/2,000
POLLY LATHAM ASIAN ART INC.
Blue and White Ewers
Rare pair of Chinese export porcelain Kangxi period blue and white ewers made after European silver forms, circa 1690.
Price Upon Request
ALEX COOPER AUCTIONEERS
Sale Date: June 16-18, 2016
Lot 1306
Pair Chinese Porcelain Stem Cups
Bowls with puce village scene and black calligraphy; stem with blue lotus leaf and character mark
Estimate: $700/1000
JOAN B. MIRVISS, LTD.
Shotei Hokuj (Japanese, 1789-1820)
View of Ochanomizu, circa 1818, Japanese woodblock print
Price Upon Request
BUTTERSCOTCH
Sale Date: June 19, 2016
Lot 105
Chinese Famille Verte Porcelain Charger
Kangxi period, with a court scene, probably from an historical play or novel, showing musicians and other attendants with an official in an open pavilion, surrounded by a ‘brocade’ diaper pattern border in copper red with various crane medallions throughout, the base with an artemisia leaf mark in blue.
Estimate: $1/2,000
QUAN RONG GALLERY
Hand Carved Chinese Elephant Bone Statue
Fortune Kids
Price Upon Request
KAMELOT AUCTION
Sale Date: June 22, 2016
Lot 432
Pair of Chinese Carved Stone Bird Form Lamps
Carved stone bird form lamps standing on plinth bases
Estimate: $1,2/1,800
COHEN & COHEN
Tripod Coffee Pot and Cover
Qianlong period, circa 1737-8 for the Dutch market, an extremely rare porcelain tripod coffee pot and cover on three feet decorated in famille rose with the Dame au Parasol pattern after Cornelis Pronk, with European metal tap fitted near the base. This is one of only three known examples of this form for this pattern.
Price Upon Request
