Christies Auctions of Chinese and Asian Art This September

Auctions of Chinese and Asian Art This Month At Christie's NYC

Six Good Auctions of Chinese Art

Auctions of Chinese and Asian art this September will include six at Christie's New York. Of the sales on offer this month in New York, Christie's has once again managed to get the lion's share of items available. Including several excellent private collections and some extraordinary items from the MARCHANT Gallery in London. One of the MARCHANT lots is I think my favorite porcelains being sold overall, lot 706, truly exceptional.

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Lot 706 MARCHANT Auction

A SUPERB LARGE LONGQUAN
CELADON BRACKET-LOBED DISH EARLY MING DYNASTY, LATE 14TH-EARLY 15TH CENTURY. The dish is sturdily potted with a tapered foot ring rising to the sides divided into twelve bracket lobes on the interior and exterior below an everted rim of conforming shape. The dish is covered overall with an even translucent glaze of soft seagreen tone with the exception of the wide ring on the recessed base. 19 in. (48.2 cm.) diam., Japanese wood box, $300,000-400,000

Lot 715, MARCHANT Auction

A RARE PARCEL-GILT-BRONZE DOUBLE-GOURD HANGING CENSER AND COVERMING DYNASTY, 16TH-17TH CENTURY

The censer is formed as a double-gourd cast with a band of lotus petals at the mouth rim of the upper section, and the lower section is fanked by two Buddhist lions, each playing with a brocade ball which supports the upright loop handle. The handle is cast with a pair of dragon heads confronting a pearl, and the openwork cover is cast with lotus blossoms beneath a fower-head terminal. The lions, dragons and foral details are highlighted in gilt against the attractively patinated bronze, and the base is cast with an apocryphal six-character Xuande mark. 8 in. (20.2 cm.) high with handle raised. $50,000-70,000

Lot 744, MARCHANT Auction

A MASSIVE AND SUPERBLY-DECORATED FAMILLE ROSE BALUSTER JAR AND COVER YONGZHENG PERIOD (1723-1735)
The massive jar is decorated on the exterior with numerous lively vignettes including fshermen at work in their boats and their families in their houseboats, four men playing games at a picnic, and a scholar and lady drinking in a canopied boat. The scenes are incorporated into a continuous riverscape with many further scenes of elderly men, ladies, and children at play, beneath sprays of prunus, lotus, peony and chrysanthemum upon a pink geometric foral band at the shoulder and peony sprays on the neck. The domed cover is similarly decorated with a pink foral band above the rim below fshermen and boys at play, and surmounted by a gilded bud-shaped fnial. The base is unglazed. 31√ in. (81 cm.) high. $80,000-120,000

Lot 1233, Fine Chinese Ceramics And Works of Art
A RARE TEADUST-GLAZED BRACKET-LOBED ‘NARCISSUS BOWL’ YONGZHENG FOUR-CHARACTER IMPRESSED SEAL MARK AND OF THE PERIOD (1723-1735)
Finely potted after a Yuan-Ming-dynasty prototype, the vessel has shallow, rounded sides molded as six petals that rise to the everted bracket-lobed rim and is raised on three ruyi-shaped feet. The vessel is covered overall in an even, finely speckled olive-green, opaque glaze that thins to russet on the raised edges. 8 in. (20.2 cm.) diam.
$40,000-60,000

Lot 1246, Fine Chinese Ceramics And Works of Art
A SUPERB TEADUST-GLAZED VASE, FANGHU QIANLONG SIX-CHARACTER INCISED SEAL MARK AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795) The body of rectangular section is molded on two sides with a slightly raised peach-shape panel, and the
neck is flanked by two tubular handles. The vase is covered overall in an opaque glaze of finely mottled, dark yellowish-green color that continues into the interior and also covers the base surrounding the tortoise-shell-glazed mark, and the foot is covered with a dark wash. 11" in. (29.8 cm.) high, zitan stand, Japanese wood box
$200,000-300,000