Highlights: Celebrating Centuries of Asian Art

Highlights: Celebrating Centuries of Asian Art

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  An important pale celadon jade 'Hetian Peach and Crane' ruyi sceptre inscribed with an Imperial poem and dedicated to the Empress Dowager, dated to the 1st month of spring of the guisi year of the Qianlong period (in accordance with 1773). Estimate €200,000–300,000.

  An extract from the poem inscribed is translated as follows:
  
  ‘May the crane of longevity flutter its feathers
  for You in the Garden of Repletion,
  and the fruiting peaches of immortality
  blossom ever again at Jasper Pond.
  Great blessings we offer up this New Year
  to the Queen Mother of the West
  With this poor specimen of such little use
  but said to gleam so magnificently.’
  
  
  
  

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  An archaic bronze ritual vessel, zun, late Shang/early Western Zhou Dynasty, 11th/10th century. Estimate €150,000–250,000.

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  A rare grey limestone figure of the Buddha Maitreya, Northern Wei Dynasty, early 6th century, Longmen caves, Henan. Estimate €120,000– 150,000.

  Of small size, the present fragment is characteristic of Longmen sculpture.
  Similar sculptures in situ can be found in some of the earliest caves executed at Longmen, such as the famous Guyang cave started when the Northern Wei rulers moved their capital from Datong to Luoyang in AD 494.
  
  

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  A lacquered gilt-bronze figure of Songzi Guanyin, Ming Dynasty, 17th century, lotus base and stand. Estimate €120,000– 150,000.

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  A massive, well-modelled Dehua figure of Guanyin, impressed Boji Yuren mark, Qing Dynasty, 18th/19th century. Estimate €70,000–90,000.

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  A rare bronze vessel and cover, lian, Han Dynasty, 2nd century BC/2nd century AD. Estimate €60,000– 80,000.

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  A rare pale celadon jade seal, Qing Dynasty, first half of the 18th century. Estimate €50,000– 70,000.

  This pale celadon jade seal was discovered in a French private collection where it was hidden for many years. Its base is carved with nine characters which may be translated as follows: ‘Loyalty, Filial Piety, Dignity, Righteousness, guide people in all their behaviours’.
  
  

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  A very rare superbly carved cinnabar lacquer 'soul tablet' box and cover, Qing Dynasty, Qianlong period. Estimate €15,000–25,000.

  The image skilfully carved with great detail on the cover of this box represents a scene from the life of Buddha Shakyamuni preaching to his Buddhist disciples including the 500 luohan, the four heavenly guardians and numerous guanyin.
  
  

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  A grey schist figure of a seated Bodhisattva, ancient region of Gandhara, Kushan period, 2nd/4th century. Estimate €40,000– 60,000.

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  A rare gilt-bronze and cloisonné enamel vase, Ming Dynasty, late 16th century. Estimate €30 000–50 000.

  Vases of this particular shape are rare and few examples are known in private and museum collections. The design of lion dogs playfully engaging with each other is also unusual and can be found on a few rare examples dated to the mid-Ming Dynasty.
  
  

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