Asia Week Ugly Huanghuali Sells for 9 Million

Asia Week in New York A Huge Success Christies Vase Sells For $3,819,750

Vase Lot Description From Christies

A FINE AND RARE UNDERGLAZE-BLUE-DECORATED, YELLOW-GROUND INCISED PEAR-SHAPED VASE

QIANLONG SEAL MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)

The body is incised under an egg yolk-yellow glaze with a flaming pearl on each side being contested by a

$3,819,750 Qianlong Vase

full-faced, five-clawed dragon rising above the pearl and a three-clawed dragon reaching for it from below as the two leap amidst clouds and flames bordered by slightly raised bands of leaf tips and lappets painted in underglaze blue, as are the bands of lotus sprays on the foot and at the rim, and the decoration on the highly stylized animal-head handles that may represent rhinoceros heads.

7¾ in. (19.7 cm.) high

清乾隆 青花黄彩暗刻雲龍戲珠紋鳩耳尊 六字篆書款
Provenance
Bertha Siegel Bleicher (1897-1986) Collection, Springfield, Massachusetts.
The Springfield Museums, Springfield, Massachusetts, accessioned 1985.

As P. T. Barnum once said..."There's a sucker born every minute", here's your sign...

Lot Description From Christies

A MAGNIFICENT AND VERY RARE MASSIVE HUANGHUALI PLANK-TOP PEDESTAL TABLE, JIAJI'AN17TH/18TH CENTURY

The exceptionally massive single-plank top with finely beaded edge is supported on thick, similarly beaded, tiered 'pedestals', raised on thick, beaded trestle legs framing reticulated panels separated by fixed single stretchers, the whole set into wide shoe feet.
36 in. (92.7 cm.) high, 178¼ in. (452.8 cm.) wide, 22 in. (55.9 cm.) deep

Asia Week Ugly Huanghuali Sells for 9 Million

Lumber Pile Brings over $9,000,000

明末/清十八世紀 黃花梨架几案

Provenance

Grace Wu Bruce, 1996.

Pre-Lot Text

PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF JONATHAN AND JESSIKA AUERBACH

Exhibited

Denver Art Museum, 2001-2012.

While for the most part in the "art world" the rule is "speak no evil" of things wealthy people opt to spend millions on in their never ending quest to elevate their egos by tossing wads of cash at almost anything , in this case you can make an exception. This table is a dog with fleas. I wonder what it's BTU value is?