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Asian Art/Modern Design/Studio Ceramics/Decorative Arts/New Zealand Artefacts — Art+Object

Auction House:Art+ObjectNumber of lots recorded:576
Sale Title:Asian Art/Modern Design/Studio Ceramics/Decorative Arts/New Zealand ArtefactsLots with images:478
Auction Location:AucklandPrices available:388
Date:5-Mar-2014
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Chinese export Mandarin pattern saucer dish, 18th century. Diameter 12.5 cm
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Two Chinese export blue and white dishes, 18th century, together with three Cantonese dishes, circa 1900. Diameter 23.5 cm max
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Two Chinese famille rose cups and saucers, 20th century, and one spoon. Diameter 11 cm max
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Two Chinese blue and white bowls, Ming dynasty and Kangxi period. Diameter 15 cm max
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Small Chinese blue and white jar, Kangxi period, painted with ladies playing a chess game. Height 10 cm
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Chinese yellow ground green enamelled footed dragon bowl, Guangxu six character mark and of the period, the exterior decorated with a pair of dragons chasing the flaming pearl amongst scrolling clouds and waves, wood stand (restored). Diameter 10 cm
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Chinese blue and white jar, with wooden lid and stand. Height 13 cm
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Chinese doucai bowl, spurious Chenghua six-character mark to the base. Diameter 11 cm
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Large Chinese blue and white charger, possibly 19th century. Diameter 38 cm
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English Ming-style blue and white pear-shaped vase, late Victorian period. Height 21 cm
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English Ming-style blue and white baluster vase, late Victorian period. Height 21 cm
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Chinese clobbered blue and white vase and cover, 19th century, of pear shape, later gilt and decorated in famille rose enamels. Height 37 cm
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Chinese famille rose bottle vase, circa 1900. Height 34 cm
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Pair of small Chinese Yixing pottery vases, with painted floral design and lines of calligraphy, seal marks. Height 17.5 cm
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Chinese Shiwan pottery Buddhist lion, Sealmarks. Length 12.5 cm
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Chinese porcelain figure, of a smoking man. Height 21 cm
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Chinese Jun-style censer, with applied dragon to the shoulder. Height 15 cm
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Chinese song-style crackled glaze vase, wood stand. Height 11.5 cm
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Chinese Tang-style pottery ewer, with crackled white glaze. Height 20 cm
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Chinese unglazed marble ware bowl. Diameter 13 cm
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Unusual Chinese marble ware meiping vase. Height 27 cm
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Chinese painted grey-pottery duck-shaped vase, Han dynasty. Height 28.5 cm
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Chinese Neolithic red pottery vessel, with impressed rope decoration. Diameter 19.5 cm
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Chinese Ming provincial celadon vase, with wood stand. Height 17 cm
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Chinese early qingbai box and cover, with a dragon applied to the cover. Diameter 8 cm
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Chinese shipwreck celadon lug-handled jar, Ming dynasty. Height 17 cm
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Two Korean celadon water droppers, both with slip decoration. Height 6 cm
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Two Korean pottery conical bowls. Diameter 14.5 cm
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Early south East Asian glazed pottery figure, of an elephant. Length 8 cm
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A group of eight early south East Asian pottery vessels
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Very large south East Asian stoneware dragon jar, with loop handles to the shoulder, covered in a rich green and blue iridescent glaze. Height 86 cm
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Pair of Tibetan tingsha, together with a Tibetan bell
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Small Indian bronze figure, of a Bodhissatva. Height 9.5 cm
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Nepali bronze figure of Maitreya, his hands forming the dharmachakra mudra. Height 23.5 cm
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Indian bronze Bodhisattva figure, together with a Northern Indian iron pouring vessel, and a Thai bronze deity. Height 23 cm
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Large decorative wooden Thai reclining Buddha figure, split and showing signs of wear. Length 1500
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Tibetan gilt bronze figure of Shakyamuni, seated in padmasana holding an alms bowl on a lotus throne. Height 35 cm
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Tibetan bronze figure of a Mahasaddhi, cast as holding a vessel in her right hand, the left hand in abhaya mudra. Height 16.5 cm
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Tibetan bronze of green Tara, 19th century, the female bodhisattva of enlightened activity, seated on a lotus throne in the posture of royal ease with right leg extended. Her left hand holding the stem of a upala flower which blossoms with a varja at her shoulder. Height 34 cm
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Tibetan bronze bodhisattva figure, 19th century, in standing posture on a lotus throne holding the stem of an upala flower in her left hand which blossoms at her shoulder. Height 24 cm
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Chinese bronze figure of the Bodhisattva Maitreya, Ming Dynasty, cast as standing on a lotus stand, the right hand in abhaya mudra, the left hand holding a vessel. Height 32 cm
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Japanese polished bronze figure of Buddha. Height 9 cm
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Decorative Japanese bronze bell, and stand. Height 32 cm
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Japanese lacquer box, Meiji/Taisho period. Diameter 7.5 cm
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Japanese lacquered paper mache footed dish, Meiji period, decorated with figures at leisure in a palace setting. Diameter 28.5 cm
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Japanese wood and ivory okimono, of a drummer and child, Meiji/Taisho period, inlaid with mother-of-pearl decoration. Height 17 cm
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Japanese ivory netsuke of two sumo players, Meiji period, signed. Height 5.5 cm
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Japanese Satsuma figural group, Meiji period, modelled as of Jurojin seated on his deer, Jurojin holding a fan in his right hand, a scroll in his left, wearing a robe densely decorated with flower heads, with wood stand. Width 22 cm
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Large Japanese Sumidagawa ware bowl, applied with four figures of children looking at a hut on the shore of a lake, signed. Diameter 27.5 cm
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Japanese Imari porcelain bowl, Meiji period, painted with kiku and cherry blossoms. Diameter 24 cm
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Group of five Japanese Imari saucers, Meiji period. Diameter 12 cm
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Group of seven Japanese porcelain, circa 1900, including a bowl, cup and two saucers set, together with two Imari saucers and a bowl lid. Diameter 12.5 cm max
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Large Japanese Satsuma tripod censer, signed. Width 31 cm
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Small Japanese porcelain vase, with applied crayfish to the shoulder. Height 10.5 cm
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Japanese woodblock print, by Utagawa Kunisada, 36 x 24 cm, framed and glazed
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Two Japanese woodblock prints, the first by Utagawa Hiroshige, 'Sudden Shower at Ohashi Bridge', the second by Hiroshi Yoshida, 'Kagurazaka Street After a Night Rain', from the 'Twelve Scenes of Tokyo' series, 32.5 x 20.5 cm and 37 x 24 cm, both framed and glazed
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Japanese wood block print, by Toshusai Sharaku, 'Sakata Hangoro III As the Villian Fujikawa Mizuemon', reprint from the collection of Robert O. Muller (1911-2003), 38.5 x 25.5 cm
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Three Japanese wood block prints, of bijin and an actor
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Hazel H. Gorham, Japanese and Oriental pottery, Yamagata Printing Co. Yokohama
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Good Japanese two piece isho-dansu [clothing chest], Meiji period, made in the Nihonmatsu region with forged metal warbite handles and distinctive ornate metal disc lock plates in brass and copper, the small key cover is a mallet shaped referring to Daikoku, the god of wealth who carries one. Above is a brass ornament that depicts a money bag at the centre, the upper section with two drawers and small cupboards the lower section with three full width drawers. Height 1,200 x. Width 115 cm
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Chinese four-panel red lacquer screen, decorated to one side with figures in fenced gardens, the reverse with floral design, 142.5 x 30 cm each panel
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Large Chinese cloisonne basin, 19th century. Width 31 cm
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Chinese Peking green glass bowl, with wood stand. Diameter 16 cm
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Chinese Peking red-overlay white carved glass bowl, with wood stand. Diameter 14.5 cm
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Chinese Peking red glass stamp, with carved decoration. Height 14.5 cm
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Small Chinese Peking red glass vase, the glass with marble effect. Height 11 cm
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Chinese glass figure of Shoulao, wood stand. Height 16 cm
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Chinese carved agate snuff bottle, together with an inside painted glass snuff bottle. Height 9 cm
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Chinese grey jade belt hook, and a celadon jade bi disc. Length 11.5 cm max
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Chinese celadon jade lidded vase, with high-relief decoration of scrolling dragons. Height 15 cm
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Chinese pale celadon jade carving of a butterfly, naturalistically carved with open wings, wood stand. Width 8 cm
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Chinese Hotan celadon jade archaistic footed cup, carved in high relief with chilong dragons. Height 17.5 cm
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Chinese Hotan celadon jade squat vase. Height 7 cm
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Chinese Hotan celadon jade censer and cover, with loose-ring handles. Width 16.5 cm
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Large Chinese Hotan spinach jade bowl, with gilt decoration. Diameter 26.5 cm
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Chinese yellow wax stone scholar's stone, set in a fitted wooden stand. Height 19 cm
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Chinese shoushan soapstone seal, carved with figures in a mountainous landscape. Height 5 cm
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Chinese soapstone brushwasher. Width 10 cm
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Chinese soapstone figure of a fisherman, standing on rockwork. Height 16 cm
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Chinese lapis lazuli carving, intricately worked with an immortal leaping from an elephant tusk, the elephant holding a large lidded vase, wood stand. Height 12 cm
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Chinese carved coconut inlaid pewter teapot and bowl. Width 16.5 cm max
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Chinese wood figure of Budai. Height 21 cm
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Set of five ivory chopsticks and chopstick stands, 19th/20th century. Length 26 cm max
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Chinese ivory bead bracelet, early 20th century. Diameter 11.5 cm
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Chinese marine ivory hair pin. Height 15.5 cm
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Chinese ivory cigarette filter, early 20th century. Height 12.5 cm
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Chinese carved buffalo horn. Length 21.5 cm
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Chinese carved walrus tusk pipe. Length 16 cm
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Chinese cased bamboo and bone set of mah-jong pieces, together with various other bone, ivory, metal and plastic games pieces, dice and buttons, and three wooden game trays
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Group of small Chinese items, including a blanc de chine miniature pillow, a small blue and white box, a jade ornament with silver mounts and an ivory card case with a matching lid
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Chinese lacquer fan box. Width 32 cm
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Two Chinese composition dolls, boy and girl, together with another doll of a mother and child. Height 24 cm max
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A Chinese coral-like snuff bottle, and a carving of a boy with a peach. Height 7.5 cm
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Chinese enamelled finger decoration. Length 10 cm
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Chinese silver dragon pendant. Height 4 cm
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Small Chinese bronze censer, and a bronze Buddhist lion finial. Height 9.5 cm max
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Chinese polished bronze figure, of a monkey on a horse. Height 9 cm
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Old Northern Chinese copper teapot. Width 19.5 cm
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Old Chinese bronze animal bell. Width 20 cm
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Chinese bamboo opium pipe. Length 56 cm
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