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Asian Art — Art+Object

Auction House:Art+ObjectNumber of lots recorded:209
Sale Title:Asian ArtLots with images:209
Auction Location:AucklandPrices available:162
Date:29-Feb-2012
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A collection of five Chinese snuff bottles, comprising a red overlay glass bottle, a monochrome red glass bottle, a monochrome orange glass bottle, an inside-painted glass bottle and an agate bottle, hardstones and metal stoppers. The largest. Height 8 cm
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Two Chinese tiger’s eye snuff bottles, 19th/20th century. the first with tiger’s eye stopper, the second carved with figural panels, hardstone and metal stopper, both with wood stands. The first. Height 6.2 cm
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A Chinese porcelain snuff bottle, painted with a fisherman and a boy fishing on a riverbank, hardstone stopper, three character mark to the base. The bottle. Height 6 cm
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A Chinese agate carving, carved as a horn-shaped libation cup with ram head. wood stand. Length 10.5 cm
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A pair of Chinese wood stands, 20th century. Diameter 15 cm max
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A Chinese gourd cricket box with wood cover, 19th/20th century. Length 11 cm
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A Chinese Cizhou style bowl, painted with a sage figure fishing. Diameter 33 cm
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A Chinese cinnabar paste porcelain box and cover, painted with a lily plant and calligraphy lines, wood box;. Together with a pair of hardstone seals, carved with elephants; a smaller hardstone seal carved with leaves, the base carved with 'J. R. Cox' and the relative Chinese characters;. and a large black wood seal, with a bamboo-shaped handle, two-character mark to the base, the box, diameter 6.5 cm
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A matched pair of Chinese famille rose bottle vase, early 20th century. Similarly painted with two crickets amongst flower and foliage, calligraphy lines to the reverse, artist sealmark to the base, wood stands, the largest. Height 14 cm
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A Chinese Ming-style blue and white bowl, decorated with ‘Fu’ (happiness) characters amongst clouds and peony blossoms, mark to the base. Diameter 12 cm
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A collection of fifty Chinese snuff bottles, including three inside-painted glass bottles and various porcelain bottles painted and glazed in various styles. The largest. Height 7.5 cm
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A pair of Chinese buffalo horn carvings of aubergines. Height 9 cm
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A Chinese export Mandarin patterned baluster vase, Qianlong period (1736-1795). Painted with panels of figures at leisure in fenced gardens before river landscapes, surrounded by iron-red and gilt Y-formed key-fret ground and with applied scrolling peony sprays issuing from the branch-shaped handles. Height 29.5 cm
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A Chinese blue and white celadon ground bottle vase, 19th century. Moulded with a scene from the legend 'Ba Xian Guo Hai' ('The Eight Immortals Cross the Sea'). Height 40 cm
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A Chinese flambe baluster vase, 18th/19th century, the shoulders moulded in relief with three ram heads, covered with a thick crackled streaked glazes of red and purple tones, thinning to mushroom at the rim and to the relief decoration, Yongzhen four-character seal mark to the base. Height 280
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A Chinese Song-style ‘hare fur’ tea bowl, together with a Jin Dynasty-style chicken head ewer. The bowl, diameter 12.5 cm
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A large Chinese Longquan-style celadon jar, with dragon biscuit decoration. Height 37 cm
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A Chinese Cizhou-style black glazed ribbed handled jar, together with a baluster vase with sgraffiato decoration of peony scrolls, mark to base, the first, 24 cm
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A Chinese celadon lotus-shaped censer and pierced cover, mark to base. Together with a small Jun-style bottle vase and a flower pot, the first. Height 17 cm
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A Chinese Cizhou-style rectangular pillow, with sgraffiato decoration of peony scrolls. Length 48 cm
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Three Chinese Ding-style vases, comprising a white-glazed meiping vase carved with stylised lotus motif, a brown-glazed meiping and a further brown-glazed baluster vase. The first, 28.5 cm
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A Cizhou-style jar, decorated with panels of young boys. Height 26.5 cm
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A Chinese Tang-style sancai horse and rider. Height 50 cm
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A large Chinese ribbed meiping vase, covered with a crackled white glaze. Height 475
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A modern flambe jar with five ring handles. Height 28 cm
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A Chinese pale celadon shallow bowl, covered with a thick crackled glazed. together with a cup with similar glaze, wood stand. The first, 24.5 cm
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A small Korean celadon water dropper, and a bowl with flower design. Koryo period (12th-14th century). The bowl, diameter 140
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A Korean grey celadon bowl, with slip decoration of bands with geometric design. together with four Korean small celadon dishes. Koryo Dynasty (12th-14th century). The first, diameter 15 cm
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A Korean white porcelain bowl, with carved phoenix and lotus decoration. together with a blue and white cup and a saucer, the cup painted to the centre with the character ‘Shi’ (Life), the saucer with the character ‘Fu’ (happiness). probably all 19th century. The first, diameter $21 cm
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A Chinese celadon melon-shaped vase. Height 140
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Two Tek Sing cargo blue and white dishes, 19th century. the first painted with a panel of chrysanthemum sprays, the second with shaped panels of stylised floral design. The first, diameter 20 cm
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A South-East Asian blue and white dish, painted with panels in Kraak style with ducks amongst lotus plants and flowers. Diameter 35.5 cm
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A small iron spotted ewer, and a Yue-style celadon dish. The first. Height 9.5 cm
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A pair of Chinese Ming-style green and yellow glazed funerary figures of attendants. Height 20 cm
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A large Chinese Ming-style green glazed funerary figure of an attendant. Height 39.5 cm
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A Chinese Qingbai-style Buddhist Guanyin shrine, modeled as a rockwork grotto centered by a figure of Guanyin seated at ease on a ledge, the opening framed by scrolling flowering branches. Height 30.5 cm
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A pair of Chinese hardstone Buddhist lions, wood stands. Length 9 cm
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Four Thai Sawankhalok circular jars and covers, variously decorated in underglazed iron with stylised floral and geometric motifs. together with a later celadon crackled glazed dish. The largest jar. Height 11.5 cm
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A Thai Sawankhalok celadon lotus bowl, and a smaller cup. The largest, diameter 22.5 cm
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A matched pair of small Chinese sancai jars, Tang Dynasty (618-907). the buff body covered with a splashed amber, green and colorless glaze layer. Height 10.5 cm
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A small Chinese Changsha ewer, Tang Dynasty (618-907), the sides with typical amber-splashes. Height 14 cm
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A Chinese pottery model of a pig, probably Han Dynasty (206BC – 220AD). Length 23 cm
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A Chinese pottery camel, probably Tang Dynasty (618-907). Height 43 cm
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A Chinese Sichuan pottery figure of an attendant, probably Han Dynasty (206BC – 220AD). Height 44 cm
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A South-East Asian red and lacquer bowl, probably 19th century. decorated with a stylized flower and fruit pattern. Diameter 33 cm
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A large Chinese root stand, and two wood stands. The root stand. W. 33 cm
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A Chinese blue and white ginger jar, 19th century. painted with birds and pine, bamboo and prunus branches (‘The Three Friends of Winter’). Height 13.5 cm
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A pair of Chinese Export famille rose dishes, early 20th century. painted with butterflies amongst peony flowers. Diameter 21 cm
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A Chinese famille verte Kangxi-style brushpot, painted with a circus parade. Height 160
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A Chinese bamboo carving of a Buddhist sage in a grotto. Height 25.5 cm
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A large Chinese famille rose bowl, painted with figures of gentlemen and attendants in a fenced garden. Diameter 20 cm
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A Chinese famille rose bowl, painted with figures of ladies and attendants in a flowering garden. Diameter 14.5 cm
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A Chinese famille verte bottle vase, painted with panels of birds amongst peony, chrysanthemum, bamboo and peony sprays, Kangxi six-character mark to the base. Height 28.5 cm
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Three Chinese archaistic jade carvings, comprising a huang, a Budhist lion and a horse. The largest, diameter 14.5 cm
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A Chinese jade carving of a qilong dragon, an archaistic blade and an archaistic pendant. The first, length 7 cm
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A Chinese archaistic jade plaque, with two qilong dragons, a jade pendant carved with two stylised dragons and another one carved with a taotie mask. The first, length 10.5 cm
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A Chinese hanging scroll, painted with a cockerel amongst rockworks and prunus branches. together with a Chinese rice paper painting of a cat in a landscape (in poor condition). The first, 109 cm x 42 cm
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A Chinese hardwood Lohan bed, with yellow floral brocaded cushions and inset woven cane seat with pierced and carved back and side panels
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A Chinese late 19th century provincial settle, with yoke form cresting piece held on serpentine supports with square section legs united by stretchers
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A pair of late 19th century Chinese provincial hall chairs matching the previous lot
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A decoratively painted Chinese document box,
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A decoratively painted document box,
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A decoratively painted black lacquer altar table
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A pair of large decorative blue glazed pottery jars, one decorated with a dragon in relief and the other with children in relief
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A decoratively painted black lacquer wedding cabinet, late 19th century Chinese. Shanxi province
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A Chinese hardwood dining table, raised on square section legs
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A 19th century Nepalese Newari thangka painted with a figure of Avalokieshvara, the Bodhisattva of compassion seated in a pure land surrounded by numerous Bodhisattvas. Paint flaking and in poor condition
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A Tibetan thangka, hand painted with the Buddha Amitayus the Buddha of longevity seated in a meditative posture holding a long life vase framed by Bodhisattva figures. The thangka highlighted in gilt. 650 x 47 cm
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A Tibetan Dzi bead, together with two agate Tibetan beads
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A Chinese silk robe collar, woven with butterflies and peony, chrysanthemum, prunus and bamboo branches, framed and glazed. Diameter 52 cm
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A Chinese porcelain plate, 19th century. Painted in blue and white in the willow bridge pattern. Diameter 25 cm
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A Chinese porcelain plate, 19th century. Painted in blue and white with ladies and children in a garden setting. Diameter 27.5 cm
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A Chinese porcelain plate, 19th century. Painted in blue and white with a prunus blossom design. Diameter 27.5 cm
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A Chinese porcelain plate, 19th century. painted in blue and white in the willow bridge pattern. Diameter 25 cm
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A Chinese export porcelain blue and white plate, late 18th century. Painted with a Buddhist sage riding a oxen with attendants in a landscape setting. Diameter 27.5 cm
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A Japanese egg-shell porcelain cup and saucer, decorated with scenes of beautiful ladies in a river landscape, mark to the base. The cup, diameter 10 cm
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A Japanese modern Kutani bottle vase, glazed in different shades of blue, mark to the base, Japanese wood box. Height 29.5 cm
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A bronze vase, with precious objects relief decoration
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A small Japanese cloisonne vase, decorated with cranes. Wood stand. Height 12 cm
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A Japanese turquoise glazed bottle vase, first quarter of the 20th century. together with a smaller English monochrome yellow crackled glazed bottle vase. The first. Height 25.5 cm. For the Japanese vase: see Anthony J. Allen, ‘Allen’s Introduction to Later Chinese Porcelain’, Auckland, 1996, fig. 78, p. 147
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A Japanese blue and white wine bottle, moulded in the shape of a bronze bell, painted to one side with a Buddha and apsaras, the reverse with a sutra, two-character mark to base. Height 20.5 cm
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A Japanese Satsuma dish, decorated in typical style with a samurai scene. Diameter 37 cm
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A Japanese blue and white square plate, 19th century. Painted to the centre with a river landscape, the rim with stylized peony and chrysanthemum motif, character mark to the base. Diameter 32.5 cm
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A Japanese Buddhist shrine, the folding doors opening to reveal a fitted interior with recessed niche to accommodate a statue above two graduated shelves on which to place offerings, with fret carved detailing raised on a plinth base
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A large and impressive Japanese Meiji period floor vase, of baluster shape with scalloped top decorated in lacquer and under glaze blue and white with an eagle perched in a Fir tree. Height 173 cm. Minor restoration to the top section. Provenance: Historically in the collection of Sir George Gray and housed in his Mansion House residence on Kawau Island.
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A red lacquer folding kimono stand,
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A Japanese wood block print, of a bijin (beautiful woman)
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A Japanese room screen with six panels, with calligraphic inscriptions
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A Japanese Bizen stoneware jar, ovoid with incised decoration to the shoulder together with a smaller Bizen stoneware vase. Height 20 cm and 16 cm
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A Japanese stoneware Chawan (tea bowl), with shino type glaze together with another stoneware chawan. Each diameter 12 cm
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Three Japanese stoneware Chawan (tea bowls)
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A Japanese Edo period Shigaraki ware, lidded water jar. chip to top rim
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A Japanese Edo period Bizen stoneware jar, with poured glaze forming vertical bands around the circumference of the vase. Height 32 cm
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A large Japanese Edo period Shigaraki chatsubo (tea jar), ovoid shape with olive green glaze and small lug handles to the shoulder. Height 36 cm. A jar of this type would have been given by the owner to the owner of a tea plantation who would have then returned it after the harvest filled with fresh leaves
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A Japanese stoneware brush pot, together with a stoneware vase, a stoneware bowl and a porcelain bowl
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A Japanese stoneware vase, together with a stoneware vase with crackle glaze
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A large Japanese Edo period stoneware vase, with tenmoku glaze. Height 30 cm
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A Japanese Anagama fired stoneware vase, decorated with a coiled snake recessed in the shoulder section. Height 17 cm
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A Japanese stoneware vase, with tenmoku glaze. together with another stoneware vase. with patches of olive green glaze on an iron glazed ground
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A set of eight Japanese black lacquer trays, with various designs in gold lacquer
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